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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joravasan%20railway%20station | Joravasan railway station is a small railway station on the Western Railway network in the state of Gujarat, India. Joravasan railway station is 14 km away from Valsad railway station. Passenger and MEMU trains halt here.
References
See also
Navsari district
Railway stations in Navsari district
Mumbai WR railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karambeli%20railway%20station | Karambeli railway station is a small railway station on the Western Railway network in the state of Gujarat, India. Karambeli railway station is 7 km away from Vapi railway station. Passenger and MEMU trains halt here.
See also
Valsad district
References
Railway stations in Valsad district
Mumbai WR railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedchha%20railway%20station | Vedchha railway station is a small railway station on the Western Railway network in the state of Gujarat, India. Vedchha railway station is near Navsari railway station. Passenger and MEMU trains halt here.
In the early 1960s the area immediately around the station was undeveloped but it contributed to the development of the cotton industry in the nearby town of Abrama.
References
See also
Navsari district
Railway stations in Navsari district
Mumbai WR railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Amotekun | Western Nigeria Security Network (WNSN) codenamed Operation Amotekun (Leopard or Cheetah), is a security outfit based in all the six states of the South Western, Nigeria, responsible for curbing insecurity in the region. It was founded on 9 January 2020 in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria as the first regional security outfit initiated by a geopolitical zone in Nigeria.
History
Amotekun is a Yoruba word that means "One that looks like a leopard," leopard being translated to "amotekun." Because of this, Amotekun properly means cheetah, but as in this case, it is often mistransliterated to leopard. Operation Amotekun (Leopard) was established on 9 January 2020 by the six state governors of all the South Western states of Nigeria, namely; Lagos State, Oyo State, Ogun State, Ondo State, Osun State and Ekiti State. The establishment of the security outfit was subject to the decision by all the six state governors at the regional security summit held in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria in June 2019 through Development Agenda for Western Nigeria Commission (DAWN). In support of the outfit, all the six state governors contributed 20 vehicles each, except Oyo that contributed 33 vehicles, in order to assist the operatives in carrying out their duties, making a total of 133 vehicles for the startup, they also procured 100 units of motorcycles each, making a total of 600 motorcycles. The members of the outfit were drawn from local hunters, the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Agbekoya, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) and vigilante group.
Operation
The operatives of the security outfit will assist police, other security agencies and traditional rulers in combating terrorism, banditry, armed robbery, kidnapping and also help in settling herdsmen and farmers contentions in the region. For the startup, Lagos, Osun and Ekiti states, recruited 1,320 operatives for the operation, while they will carry dane guns like local hunters, operating in about 52 deadly blackspots all over the southwest region.
Controversy
On 13 January 2020, the Nigeria police warned that they will arrest any operative of the outfit that carries illegal arms.
On 14 January 2020, the Federal government of Nigeria declared Operation Amotekun as an illegal operation, stating that it is not backed by the Nigerian constitution.
On 23 January 2020, the vice president of Nigeria, Yemi Osinbajo, met with the six state governors of the south western Nigeria and they all agreed to work together towards the progress of Operation Amotekun.
See also
Eastern Security Network
References
Counterterrorism in Nigeria
Law enforcement in Nigeria
Vigilantes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijaykrishnan%20Narayanan | Vijaykrishnan Narayanan is the A. Robert Noll Chair of Computer Science and Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. He has been on the faculty at Penn State since 1998. He is an international expert in computer architecture. His research and teaching interests include computer architecture, embedded and mobile computing systems design, power and reliability aware design, and emerging technologies in computing systems.
Biography
Education
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan received his B.E.(Bachelor of Engineering) in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Madras in 1993, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of South Florida in 1998, respectively.
Career
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan joined the faculty of the Pennsylvania State University as an assistant professor in 1998. He was promoted to the rank of full professor in 2007. Vijaykrishnan Narayanan has worked in the area of power-aware design. With colleagues at Penn State, he developed architectural level power simulators, SimplePower and SoftWatt. He has developed application-specific architectures, including the design, implementation, and field-testing of board level designs for DARPA DESA and DARPA Neovision2 programs.
Service to the Computing Community
Narayanan has extensive service to the Computer Science and Engineering research community. He currently serves as the past chair of ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation. Previously he served as a founding co-Editor-in-Chief of ACM's Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems and as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems.
Personal life
Honors and awards
A list of all his awards follows.
2015 ACM Fellow
2012 ASP-DAC Ten-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award
2011 IEEE Fellow
2003 IEEE/CAS VLSI Transactions Best Paper of the Year Award
References
External links
Home Page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency%20network%20%28graphical%20model%29 | Dependency networks (DNs) are graphical models, similar to Markov networks, wherein each vertex (node) corresponds to a random variable and each edge captures dependencies among variables.
Unlike Bayesian networks, DNs may contain cycles.
Each node is associated to a conditional probability table, which determines the realization of the random variable given its parents.
Markov blanket
In a Bayesian network, the Markov blanket of a node is the set of parents and children of that node, together with the children's parents. The values of the parents and children of a node evidently give information about that node. However, its children's parents also have to be included in the Markov blanket, because they can be used to explain away the node in question. In a Markov random field, the Markov blanket for a node is simply its adjacent (or neighboring) nodes. In a dependency network, the Markov blanket for a node is simply the set of its parents.
Dependency network versus Bayesian networks
Dependency networks have advantages and disadvantages with respect to Bayesian networks. In particular, they are easier to parameterize from data, as there are efficient algorithms for learning both the structure and probabilities of a dependency network from data. Such algorithms are not available for Bayesian networks, for which the problem of determining the optimal structure is NP-hard. Nonetheless, a dependency network may be more difficult to construct using a knowledge-based approach driven by expert-knowledge.
Dependency networks versus Markov networks
Consistent dependency networks and Markov networks have the same representational power. Nonetheless, it is possible to construct non-consistent dependency networks, i.e., dependency networks for which there is no compatible valid joint probability distribution. Markov networks, in contrast, are always consistent.
Definition
A consistent dependency network for a set of random variables with joint distribution is a pair where is a cyclic directed graph, where each of its nodes corresponds to a variable in , and is a set of conditional probability distributions. The parents of node , denoted , correspond to those variables that satisfy the following independence relationships
The dependency network is consistent in the sense that each local distribution can be obtained from the joint distribution . Dependency networks learned using large data sets with large sample sizes will almost always be consistent. A non-consistent network is a network for which there is no joint probability distribution compatible with the pair . In that case, there is no joint probability distribution that satisfies the independence relationships subsumed by that pair.
Structure and parameters learning
Two important tasks in a dependency network are to learn its structure and probabilities from data. Essentially, the learning algorithm consists of independently performing a probabilistic regression or cl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zumbo%27s%20Just%20Desserts%20%28season%201%29 | The first season of Zumbo's Just Desserts premiered in Australia on August 22, 2016, on Seven Network. Twelve contestants were selected to compete. The winner of the first season won the grand prize of $100,000, gets an opportunity have one of their creations in Zumbo's stores and finally the title of "Zumbo's Just Desserts Winner".
The show is hosted by Adriano Zumbo and Rachel Khoo, with Gigi Falanga as assistant.
The winner was 37 year old Kate Ferguson.
Competition structure
Each chapter is divided into two stages. The "Sweet Sensations task" and the "Zumbo Test".
During the first challenge, regularly with a duration of three hours, each contestant must create a dessert following the theme and rules given by the judges at the beginning. Rachel and Zumbo evaluate each of the creations, determining a winner, who gets the Dessert Of The Day. They also declare those who were safe from the second phase and the two bakers who will go to the second phase or elimination round.
The elimination round, or Zumbo Test, consists of testing the bottom bakers with original Zumbo creations, where at least one baker will go home.
Contestants
Contestant progress
'Dessert Of The Day'
Produce the favorite dessert but was not crowned 'Dessert Of The Day'
Produce the worst dessert but was not in the 'Zumbo Test'
Won the 'Zumbo Test'
Lost the 'Zumbo Test'
Eliminated
Won 'Golden Ticket' to the Grand Final
Sent to the Semi-Final
Series winner
Series runner up
DOTD: Dessert Of The Day
ZT: Zumbo Test
DNP: Through to the Finals
Series details
Episode 1 - Reflective Dessert
Airdate — 22 August 2016
Sweet Sensations — The Dessert Makers had to create a dessert that reflected themselves.
Zumbo Test — The bottom two contestants had to recreate Zumbo's dessert dome. The lower scoring contestant is then eliminated.
Episode 2 - Franken-Dessert
Airdate — 23 August 2016
Sweet Sensations — The Dessert Makers had to create a franken-dessert, a combination of two desserts in one.
Zumbo Test — The bottom two had to recreate the FrankenZumbo, made from five different desserts. The lower scoring contestant would be eliminated.
Episode 3 - Love & Chocolate Dessert
Airdate — 24 August 2016
Sweet Sensations — The Dessert Makers had to make a romantic dessert with chocolate as the main ingredient.
Zumbo Test — The bottom two had to recreate Zumbo's love themed Croquembouche, the Lovenbouche. The lower scoring contestant would be eliminated.
Episode 4 - Kids' Party Cake
Airdate — 29 August 2016
Sweet Sensations — Each Dessert Maker had to create a cake suited for a kids' party, with little Zumbinos (kids) to taste the cakes
Zumbo Test — The bottom two had to recreate Zumbo's school desk inspired cake named "back-to-school". The lower scoring contestant was eliminated
Episode 5 - Defies Gravity
Airdate — 30 August 2016
Sweet Sensations — The Dessert Makers had to create a dessert that defies gravity
Zumbo Test — The bottom two had to recreate Zumbo's |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zumbo%27s%20Just%20Desserts%20%28season%202%29 | The second season of Zumbo's Just Desserts premiered in Australia on November 17, 2019, on Seven Network. Ten contestants were selected to compete. The winner of this season won the grand prize of $100,000 and earns the title of "Zumbo's Just Desserts Winner".
The show is hosted by Adriano Zumbo and Rachel Khoo. On May 16, 2019, it was announced that the assistant Gigi Falanga, who appeared in the previous season, was not returning.
Competition structure
Each chapter is divided into two stages. The "Sweet Sensations task" and the "Zumbo Test".
During the first challenge, regularly with a duration of three hours, each contestant must create a dessert following the theme and rules given by the judges at the beginning. Rachel and Zumbo evaluate each of the creations, determining a winner, who gets the Dessert Of The Day. They also declare those who were safe from the second phase and the two bakers who will go to the second phase or elimination round.
The elimination round, or Zumbo Test, consists of testing the bottom bakers with original Zumbo creations, where at least one baker will go home.
Contestants
Contestant progress
'Dessert Of The Day'
Produce one of the favorite desserts but was not crowned 'Dessert Of The Day'
Produce one of the weakest desserts but was not in the 'Zumbo Test'
Won the 'Zumbo Test'
Lost the 'Zumbo Test'
Eliminated from the competition
Press the 'Golden Button'
Won the 'Zumbo Test' to earn 'Golden Ticket' as a shortcut to the Grand Final
Lost the 'Zumbo Test' to earn the 'Golden Ticket'
Sent to the Semi-Final
Series winner
Series runner up
SS: Sweet Sensations Challenge
ZT: Zumbo Test
DNP: Through to the Finals!
Series details
Episode 1 – Make Some Magic!
Airdate — 17 November 2019
Sweet Sensations — The Dessert Makers had to create a dessert that has a secret inside.
Zumbo Test — The bottom two contestants had to recreate Zumbo's cake "I'm Not Lion".
Episode 2 – The Terrifying Tower
Airdate — 18 November 2019
Sweet Sensations — The Dessert Makers had to create a dessert tower at least half a meter high.
Zumbo Test — The bottom two had to recreate the Zumbo's "Lucky 13".
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! Result
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! Kylie
| Tropical Layer Cake with Pineapple Flowers
| bgcolor="lightgreen"| Safe (DOTD)
|-
! Catherine
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|-
! Rachel
| Choux Bun Mermaid Tower with Lemon Madeleines
|-
! Jeff
| Éclair & Profiterole Tower with Nougatine
|-
! Kristie
| Chocolate & Caramel Cake Pop Tower|-
! Simon
| Éclair Tower with Layered Mocha Cake
|-
! Megan
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|-
! Zak
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| rowspan="2" bgcolor="pink"| Bottom Two(Zumbo Test)|-
! Pearly
| Lemonade Cake with Raspberry Buttercream, Confetti Blondie & Musk
|}
Episode 3 – Sundae Dream
Airdate — 19 November 2019
Sweet Sensations — The Dessert Makers had to create an original-refined version of a sundae.
Zumbo Test — The bottom two ha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Top%20Christian%20Albums%20number%20ones%20of%20the%202020s | The Top Christian Albums chart is a record chart compiled by Billboard magazine, ranking the week's best-performing Christian albums in the United States. Like the Billboard 200, the data is compiled by Nielsen Soundscan based on each album's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as on-demand streaming and digital sales of its individual tracks.
Number ones
References
External links
Top Christian Albums – 2020 Archive
Current week
Christian Albums 2020s
United States Christian Albums
Contemporary Christian Albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%20SingHealth%20data%20breach | The 2018 SingHealth data breach was a data breach incident initiated by unidentified state actors, which happened between 27 June and 4 July 2018. During that period, personal particulars of 1.5 million SingHealth patients and records of outpatient dispensed medicines belonging to 160,000 patients were stolen. Names, National Registration Identity Card (NRIC) numbers, addresses, dates of birth, race, and gender of patients who visited specialist outpatient clinics and polyclinics between 1 May 2015 and 4 July 2018 were maliciously accessed and copied. Information relating to patient diagnosis, test results and doctors' notes were unaffected. Information on Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong was specifically targeted.
Discovery
The database administrators for the Integrated Health Information Systems (IHIS), the public healthcare IT provider, detected unusual activity on one of SingHealth's IT databases on 4 July, and implemented precautions against further intrusions. Network traffic monitoring was enhanced; additional malicious activity was detected after 4 July, but did not result in the theft of any data. Having ascertained that a cyberattack occurred, administrators notified the ministries and brought in the Cyber Security Agency (CSA) on 10 July to carry out forensic investigations. The agency determined that perpetrators gained privileged access to the IT network by compromising a front-end workstation, and obtained login credentials to access the database, while hiding their digital footprints. The attack was made public in a statement released by the Ministry of Communications and Information and Ministry of Health on 20 July. The ten-day delay between the discovery of the attack and the public announcement was attributed to time needed to fortify the IT systems, conduct preliminary investigations, identify affected patients and prepare the logistics of the announcement. Text messages were subsequently sent to patients whose data was affected.
Investigation
On 6 August 2018 in Parliament, S. Iswaran, Minister for Communications and Information, attributed the attack to sophisticated state-linked actors who wrote customized malware to circumvent SingHealth's antivirus and security tools. Iswaran did not name any state in the interest of national security.
A Committee of Inquiry was convened on 24 July 2018 to investigate the causes of the attack and identify measures to help prevent similar attacks. The four-member committee is chaired by former chief district judge Richard Magnus, and comprise leaders of a cyber-security firm, a healthcare technology firm and the National Trades Union Congress respectively. The committee called on the Attorney-General's Chambers to lead evidence, and the Attorney-General's Chambers appointed the Cyber Security Agency to lead the investigations with the support of the Criminal Investigation Department. The committee held closed-door and public hearings from 28 August, with another tranche of hearings from |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer%20information | Consumer information may refer to:
Mandatory labelling, product information for consumers
Customer data, information collected about the consumer during the buying process for the purpose of customer intelligence, market research, etc. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20J.%20Black | Michael J. Black is an American-born computer scientist working in Tübingen, Germany. He is a founding director at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems where he leads the Perceiving Systems Department in research focused on computer vision, machine learning, and computer graphics. He is also an Honorary Professor at the University of Tübingen.
Black has won all three major test-of-time prizes in computer vision: the Koenderink Prize at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) in 2010 and 2022, the Helmholtz Prize at the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) in 2013, and the Longuet-Higgins Prize at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) in 2022. In 2023 he received the PAMI Distinguished Researcher Award.
Research
Optical flow
Black's thesis reformulated optical flow estimation as a robust M-estimation problem. The main observation was that spatial discontinuities in image motion and violations of the standard brightness constancy assumption could be treated as outliers. Reformulating the classical optimization problem as a robust estimation problem produced more accurate results.
This "Black and Anandan" optical flow algorithm has been widely used, for example, in special effects. The method was used to compute optical flow for the painterly effects in What Dreams May Come and for registering 3D face scans in The Matrix Reloaded.
A version of this work received the IEEE Outstanding Paper Award at CVPR 1991 and the Helmholtz Prize at ICCV 2013 for work that has "stood the test of time".
His early focus on statistical modeling of motion, particularly at motion discontinuities, led to two other prize papers. His work with David Fleet on the "Probabilistic Detection and Tracking of Motion Boundaries" won honorable mention for the Marr Prize at ICCV'99. Black's work with Stefan Roth "On the spatial statistics of optical flow" received honorable mention for the Marr Prize at ICCV 2005.
His work with Deqing Sun and Stefan Roth on the "Secrets of Optical Flow" was awarded the 2020 Longuet- Higgins Prize. The prize is given annually by the IEEE Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) Technical Committee for "Contributions in Computer Vision that Have Withstood the Test of Time." The "secrets" paper helped establish the state of the art in the field and led to the widely used Classic+NL flow algorithm.
Robust statistics and image statistics
The "Black and Anandan" method helped popularize robust statistics in computer vision. This was facilitated by several papers that connected robust penalty functions to classical "line processes" used in Markov Random Fields (MRFs) at the time. Black and Rangarajan characterized the formal properties of robust functions that have an equivalent line-process form and provided a process to convert between these formulations (known now as "Black-Rangarajan Duality"). Black and colleagues applied these ideas to image denoising, anisotropic dif |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Computing%20in%20Civil%20Engineering | The Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Society of Civil Engineers. It covers research specific to computing as it relates to civil engineering.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Ei Compendex, Science Citation Index Expanded, ProQuest databases, Civil Engineering Database, Inspec, Scopus, and EBSCO databases.
References
External links
Civil engineering journals
American Society of Civil Engineers academic journals
Academic journals established in 1987 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPMP-Tools | CPMP-Tools CPMP-Tools is a free open-source software-package for Computer Algebra System (CAS). CPMP is an abbreviation for Core-Plus Mathematics Project. CPMP-Tools has a GNU-public license and works with three operating systems. CPMP-Tools is made for teaching mathematics at the high school level.
CPMP-Tools is a little similar to the two free CAS-software packages, Yacas and Xcas.
CPMP-Tools is Java-based.
Operating systems
CPMP-Tools works for these operating systems:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS
Linux
Components
CPMP-Tools contains four parts:
Algebra Tools is computer algebra system (CAS) and spreadsheet
Geometry Tools is used for drawing geometric figures
Statistics Tools can build a uni- or biviat diagram
Discrete Math is for mathematical modeling
Features
factoring polynomial: factor(
solve equation: solve(
calculate derivative: diff(
calculate antiderivative: int(
Perform Chi-squared test
Draw graph of mathematical function.
History
American mathematics teacher Brian Lemmen was involved in the development of CPMP-Tools. CPMP-Tools was first published in the 1990s.
References
External links
Free computer algebra systems
Computer algebra system software for Windows
Computer algebra system software for macOS
Computer algebra system software for Linux
Software for teachers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky%20Atlantic%20%28Italian%20TV%20channel%29 | Sky Atlantic is an Italian-language pay-TV station owned by Sky Italia. It started broadcasting on 9 April 2014.
Programming
The channel relies heavily on screenings of US television programmes from HBO and Showtime.
Original programming
Current
Devils (2020) - Co-production with OCS
Petra (2020)
Romulus (2020)
Domina (2021) - Co-production with Sky Atlantic (UK)
Blocco 181 (2022)
Django (2023) - Co-production with Canal+
Former
Notes
References
External links
(in Italian)
Sky television channels
Television channels and stations established in 2014
2014 establishments in Italy
Television channels in Italy
Sky Italia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordered%20Key-Value%20Store | An Ordered Key-Value Store (OKVS) is a type of data storage paradigm that can support multi-model database. An OKVS is an ordered mapping of bytes to bytes. It is a more powerful paradigm than Key-Value Store because OKVS allow to build higher level abstractions without the need to do full scans. An OKVS will keep the key-value pairs sorted by the key lexicographic order. OKVS systems provides different set of features and performance trade-offs. Most of them are shipped as a library without network interfaces, in order to be embedded in another process. Most OKVS support ACID guarantees. Some OKVS are distributed databases. Ordered Key-Value Store found their way into many modern database systems including NewSQL database systems.
History
The origin of Ordered Key-Value Store stems from the work of Ken Thompson on dbm in 1979. Later in 1991, Berkeley DB was released that featured a B-Tree backend that allowed the keys to stay sorted. Berkeley DB was said to be very fast and made its way into various commercial product. It was included in Python standard library until 2.7. In 2009, Tokyo Cabinet was released that was superseded by Kyoto Cabinet that support both transaction and ordered keys. In 2011, LMDB was created to replace Berkeley DB in OpenLDAP. There is also Google's LevelDB that was forked by Facebook in 2012 as RocksDB. In 2014, WiredTiger, successor of Berkeley DB was acquired by MongoDB and is since 2019 the primary backend of MongoDB database.
Other notable implementation of the OKVS paradigm are Sophia and SQLite3 LSM extension. Another notable use of OKVS paradigm is the multi-model database system called ArangoDB based on RocksDB.
Some NewSQL databases are supported by Ordered Key-Value Stores. JanusGraph, a property graph database, has both a Berkeley DB backend and FoundationDB backend.
Key concepts
Lexicographic encoding
There are algorithms that encode basic data types (boolean, string, number) and composition of those data types inside sorted containers (tuple, list, vector) that preserve their natural ordering. It is possible to work with an Ordered Key-Value Store without having to work directly with bytes. In FoundationDB, it is called the tuple layer.
Range query
Inside an OKVS, keys are ordered, and because of that it is possible to do range queries. A range query allow to retrieve all keys between two keys such as all keys that are fetched are ordered.
Subspaces
Key composition
One can construct key spaces to build higher level abstractions. The idea is to construct keys, that takes advantage of the ordered nature of the top level key space. When taking advantage of the ordered nature of the key space, one can query ranges of keys that have particular pattern.
Denormalization
Denormalization, as in, repeating the same piece of data in multiple subspace is common practice. It allows to create secondary representation, also called indices, that will allow to speed up queries.
Higher level abstractions
The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax%3A%20Retribution | Halifax: Retribution is a continuation sequel to the original Halifax f.p. series (1994–2002) which premiered on 25 August 2020 on the Nine Network in Australia. Rebecca Gibney returns as Doctor Jane Halifax who, after years as a university professor, is brought back into the forensic psychiatrist field to help the police task force find a new serial killer. The series is again set in Melbourne.
Production
In November 2018, Nine announced it would be reviving the series, set to air in 2020 titled Halifax: Retribution, with Roger Simpson returning as writer and producer, alongside executive producer Mikael Borglund and writers Mac Gudgeon and Jan Sardi; it would be produced by Beyond Lonehand, a joint venture between Simpson and Beyond Productions.
In July 2019, it was announced that Anthony LaPaglia and Jessica Marais would be joining the series, along with Jacqueline McKenzie, Rick Donald, Hannah Monson, Craig Hall, Mavournee Hazel and Louisa Mignone.
In September 2019, Marais dropped out of the series due to her work schedule and personal commitments. Claudia Karvan was a late addition to the cast list; she was known to the directors and had worked onscreen with Gibney in the telemovie, Small Claims (2004), and its two sequels. The first promo for the series premiered in April 2020 along with announcement of more cast members.
Cast
Rebecca Gibney as Jane Halifax
Anthony LaPaglia as Tom Saracen
Claudia Karvan as Mandy Petras
Craig Hall as Ben Sailor
Mavournee Hazel as Zoe Sailor
Ben O'Toole as Daniel/Jarrod
Ming-Zhu Hii as Mila Bronski
Rick Donald as Nick Tanner
Michala Banas as Erin
Jacqueline McKenzie as Sharon Sinclair
Mark Coles Smith as Kip Lee
John Waters as Ryan
Mandy McElhinney as Minister Nolan
Episodes
Ratings
References
External links
Nine Network original programming
2020 Australian television series debuts
2020 Australian television series endings
Television shows set in Victoria (state)
2020s Australian crime television series
Television series by Beyond Television Productions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficus%20subcordata | Ficus subcordata is a banyan fig species in the family Moraceae. No subspecies are listed in the Catalogue of Life. The species can be found in Indo-china, Malesia and New Guinea. In Vietnam it may be called sung mù u.
References
External links
subcordata
Trees of Vietnam
Flora of Indo-China
Flora of Malesia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sariful%20Razz | Sariful Razz (born 18 November 1991) is a Bangladeshi actor and model known for starring Poran, Hawa, Gunin, No Dorai, Damal and Networker Baire.
Early life
Sariful Razz was born in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh and but spent his childhood mostly in Sylhet due to his father's professional placement. He studied at The Aided High School and Madan Mohan College in Sylhet. After passing Higher Secondary in 2009 he came to Dhaka for higher studies and eventually involved in modelling.
Career
Before making his debut in Dhallywood Razz worked as a ramp model. Besides, he also worked in commercials.
Raaz made his debut in Dhallywood in 2016. The name of his first film was Ice Cream where he acted opposite Nazifa Tushi. Minar Rahman made his playback career debut with this film.
In 2019 the second film of Raaz was released. The name of his second film was No Dorai where he acted opposite Sunerah Binte Kamal.
The next three films of Raaz released in 2022. The name of these films are Poran, Hawa. and Damal.
Personal life
On 17 October 2021, Razz married Pori Moni, a Dhallywood actress and co-star of him from the film Gunin. The information about the marriage was kept secret from media and public until the actress became pregnant. As per news from January 2022, they were expecting a baby together. Razz-Porimoni became parents of a boy, Shaheem Muhammad Rajya, on 10 August 2022.
On 31 December, he and Pori Moni got separated as Pori Moni confirmed her separation from Razz via social media later stating that she left his house with son Rajya a day prior.
On 30 May 2023, a few private videos of Razz with three actresses, Sunerah Binte Kamal, Tanjin Tisha, and Nazifa Tushi were uploaded on his Facebook profile, indicating his relationship with them. Thus, Pori Moni seeks divorce from Razz again on 6 June 2023 due to his affairs, physical abuse, and lack of support for her media career. Finaly Pori Moni divorced him on 18 September 2023.
Filmography
Films
Web content
Controversy
References
External links
Living people
1991 births
Bangladeshi male models
Bangladeshi male film actors
People from Kasba Upazila |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nwipe | nwipe is a Linux computer program used to securely erase data. It is maintained by Martijn van Brummelen and is free software, released under the GNU General Public License 2.0 licence. The program is a fork of the dwipe program that was previously incorporated in the DBAN secure erase disk.
nwipe was created to allow dwipe to be run outside DBAN, using any host distribution. It utilizes a simple text-based ncurses user interface or can be run directly from the command line. It is available as an installable package in the repositories of many Linux distributions, including Debian and Ubuntu.
nwipe was first released as version 0.17 on 20 October 2014.
Erasing methods
nwipe can be set to use a number of different patterns, through the method selection:
Default - DoD Short - The United States Department of Defense 5220.22-M short 3 pass wipe (passes 1, 2 & 7).
Zero Fill - Fills the device with zeros, in a single pass.
RCMP TSSIT OPS-II - Royal Canadian Mounted Police Technical Security Standard, OPS-II
DoD 5220.22M - The United States Department of Defense 5220.22-M full 7 pass wipe.
Gutmann Wipe - Peter Gutmann's method for the Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory.
PRNG Stream - Fills the device with a stream from the PRNG.
Verify only - Only reads the device and checks that it is all zero.
HMG IS5 enhanced - Secure Sanitation of Protectively Marked Information or Sensitive Information
It uses two types of pseudo random number generators:
Mersenne Twister
ISAAC
Employment
nwipe has also been incorporated in free software rescue toolkit packages, such as the All in One - System Rescue Toolkit, Parted Magic, and SystemRescue.
References
External links
Data erasure software
Software using the GPL license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cults%20%283D%20printing%20marketplace%29 | Cults is a 3D printing marketplace allowing designers, makers and other users to share free and paid models meant for 3D printing. It is also a social network where 3D printing enthusiasts can interact. In March 2023, the Cults community had nearly 7 million members, including nearly 100,000 designers and 1 million 3D models to download for 3D printing, laser cutting or CNC machining.
History
Cults was founded in 2014 and is the first fully independent 3D printing marketplace.
In 2015, La Poste established a partnership with Cults and 3D Slash to develop impression3d.laposte.fr, a digital manufacturing service, allowing users to have objects printed and shipped to them on demand.
In 2016, Boulanger partners with Cults to develop Happy 3d, an open source platform dedicated to spare parts printing, in an effort to promote sustainable consumption.
Name
The name Cults is a semordnilap: Read from right to left, it spells St-Luc, patron saint of artists and sculptors. Additionally, the first three letters are STL, referring to the common stereolithography file format used by creators.
See also
References
External links
Official website
3D printing websites
3D publishing
Internet properties established in 2014
Companies based in Paris |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/010%20Editor | 010 Editor is a commercial hex editor and text editor for Microsoft Windows, Linux and macOS. Typically 010 Editor is used to edit text files, binary files, hard drives, processes, tagged data (e.g. XML, HTML), source code (e.g. C++, PHP, JavaScript), shell scripts (e.g. Bash, batch files), log files, etc. A large variety of binary data formats can be edited through the use of Binary Templates.
The software uses a tabbed document interface for displaying text and binary files. Full search and replace with regular expressions is supported along with comparisons, histograms, checksum/hash algorithms, and column mode editing. Different character encodings including ASCII, Unicode, and UTF-8 are supported including conversions between encodings. The software is scriptable using a language similar to ANSI C.
Originally created in 2003 by Graeme Sweet, 010 Editor was designed to fix problems in large multibeam bathymetry datasets used in ocean visualization. The software was designed around the idea of Binary Templates. A text editor was added in 2008.
010 Editor is available as Trialware and can be run for free for 30 days. After 30 days a license must be purchased to continue using the software.
Binary Templates
A Binary Template is a text file containing a series of structs similar to ANSI C. The main difference between ANSI C is that structs in Binary Templates may contain control statements such as if, for or while. When 010 Editor executes a Binary Template on a binary data file, each variable defined in the Binary Template is mapped to a set of bytes in the binary file and added to a hierarchical tree structure. The tree structure can then be used to view and edit data in the binary file in an easier fashion than using the raw hex bytes. Binary Templates typically have a '.bt' extension.
010 Editor has an online repository of Binary Templates containing over 80 formats. When a binary file is opened in 010 Editor and a Binary Template exists for the file, the software can automatically download and install the Template. Templates can also be added to the repository or updated directly from the software.
Technology
Data files in 010 Editor are stored as a series of blocks, where each block can either point to a block of data somewhere on disk or in memory. When a large section of data from a binary file is copied to another binary file, a new block pointer is inserted into the file but the actual data is not copied. This scheme allows partial loading of files from disk and is also used to provide unlimited undo and redo. Currently when large text blocks are opened or copied the data is scanned for linefeeds, meaning there may be a delay before editing can resume. 010 Editor uses the Qt library to provide multi-platform support.
Features
Edit text files, hex files, processes, physical and logical drives
Multiple files shown as draggable tabs which can be organized in tab groups
Large file support (50 GB+ for text files, 8 Exabytes f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avibase | Avibase is an online taxonomic database that organizes bird taxonomic and distribution data globally. The database relies on the notion of taxonomic concepts rather than taxonomic names. Avibase incorporates and organizes taxonomic data from the main avian taxonomic publishers (The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, Handbook of the Birds of the World, BirdLife International, IOC Checklist and the Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World) and other regional sources (e.g. all editions of the American Ornithological Society Checklist of North American Birds since 1886). Taxonomic concepts in over 230 different taxonomic sources have been mapped and cross-referenced to Avibase concepts.
The website also offers checklists for more than 20,000 geographic regions of the world, species pages with taxonomic information and synonyms, and tools for observers to maintain their own sightings and obtain reports, such as a map showing countries or eBird hotspots with target species.
History and purpose
Avibase was created and is maintained by Denis Lepage, currently senior director, data science and technology at Birds Canada. The data contained in Avibase has been gathered starting around 1991. The Avibase website was launched in June 2003 and has been hosted by Birds Canada (formerly Bird Studies Canada) since its inception.
Features
Taxonomic concepts. The database is organized primarily around a table of unique taxonomic concepts. A taxonomic concept is a way of grouping similar taxa together in a database in a more flexible way as compared to specific species names. Each concept represents a unique biological circumscription and has been assigned a unique alphanumeric ID called Avibase ID. Avibase IDs allow the tracking of congruent taxonomic concepts among publication sources. There are approximately 58,000 unique taxonomic concepts described in Avibase. These include concepts traditionally recognized as species and subspecies, but also other taxonomic groupings (subspecies groups), various alternative taxonomic treatments recognized historically, and other concepts representing hybrids, color morphs and invalid or dubious forms.
Nomenclature data. Each scientific name is described to include citation data and the name associated with the original description. Approximately 87,000 scientific names have been recorded in Avibase, and various types of synonyms are also available.
Regional species checklists are available for more than 20,000 regions of the world. This includes all countries, territories and dependencies, and most regions defined in the GADM subnational layers such as provinces, states, prefectures, counties, departments, municipalities and districts (GADM levels 1 and 2), as well as over 2,500 islands. Regional checklists are available in several taxonomic formats and can incorporate common names in a variety of languages. Data for regional checklists originates from multiple of sources, such as the eBird E |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearview%20AI | Clearview AI is an American facial recognition company, providing software to law enforcement and government agencies and other organizations. The company's algorithm matches faces to a database of more than 20 billion images collected from the Internet, including social media applications. Founded by Hoan Ton-That and Richard Schwartz, the company maintained a low profile until late 2019, when its usage by law enforcement was reported. U.S. by police have used the software to apprehend suspected criminals. Clearview's practices have lead to fines by EU nations for violating privacy laws and investigations in the U.S. and other countries as well.
History
Clearview operated in near secrecy until the release of The New York Times investigative report titled "The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It" in January 2020. Citing the article, over 40 tech and civil rights organizations sent a letter to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) and four congressional committees, outlining their concerns with facial recognition and Clearview, and asking the PCLOB to suspend use of facial recognition. The exposé also identified Hoan Ton-That and Richard Schwartz as the company's founders. It was reported that Ton-That and Schwartz met at the Manhattan Institute.
Early use of Clearview's app was described as a perk given to potential investors in their Series A fundraising round. Billionaire John Catsimatidis used it to identify someone his daughter dated and piloted it at one of his Gristedes grocery market in New York City to identify shoplifters. Noted far-right "troll king" Charles C. Johnson had an account on Clearview as well as Tor Ekeland.
Clearview served to accelerate a global debate on the regulation of facial recognition technology by governments and law enforcement. Law enforcement officers have stated that Clearview's facial recognition is far superior in identifying perpetrators from any angle than previously used technology. With Clearview, authorities can upload an image of a suspect's face and match it against their database. The software then supplies links to where the “match” can be found online. After discovering Clearview AI was scraping images from their site, Twitter sent a cease-and-desist letter to Clearview, insisting that they remove all images as scraping is against Twitter's policies. On February 5 and 6, 2020, Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Venmo sent cease and desist letters as it is against their policies. Ton-That responded in an interview that there is a First Amendment right to access public data and identification results were 99.6% accurate. He later stated that Clearview has scraped over 10 billion images from across the web.
In February 2020, multiple sources reported that Clearview AI had experienced a data breach, exposing its list of customers. Clearview's attorney, Tor Ekeland stated the flaw was corrected.
The settlement with the American Civil Liberties Union bans Clearview |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular%20numerical%20predicate | In computer science and mathematics, more precisely in automata theory, model theory and formal language, a regular numerical predicate is a kind of relation over integers. Regular numerical predicates can also be considered as a subset of for some arity . One of the main interests of this class of predicates is that it can be defined in plenty of different ways, using different logical formalisms. Furthermore, most of the definitions use only basic notions, and thus allows to relate foundations of various fields of fundamental computer science such as automata theory, syntactic semigroup, model theory and semigroup theory.
The class of regular numerical predicate is denoted , and REG.
Definitions
The class of regular numerical predicate admits a lot of equivalent definitions. They are now given. In all of those definitions, we fix and a (numerical) predicate of arity .
Automata with variables
The first definition encodes predicate as a formal language. A predicate is said to be regular if the formal language is regular.
Let the alphabet be the set of subset of . Given a vector of integers , it is represented by the word of length whose -th letter is . For example, the vector is represented by the word .
We then define as .
The numerical predicate is said to be regular if is a regular language over the alphabet . This is the reason for the use of the word "regular" to describe this kind of numerical predicate.
Automata reading unary numbers
This second definition is similar to the previous one. Predicates are encoded into languages in a different way, and the predicate is said to be regular if and only if the language is regular.
Our alphabet is the set of vectors of binary digits. That is: . Before explaining how to encode a vector of numbers, we explain how to encode a single number.
Given a length and a number , the unary representation of of length is the word over the binary alphabet , beginning by a sequence of "1"'s, followed by "0"'s. For example, the unary representation of 1 of length 4 is .
Given a vector of integers , let . The vector is represented by the word such that, the projection of over its -th component is . For example, the representation of is . This is a word whose letters are the vectors , and and whose projection over each components are , and .
As in the previous definition, the numerical predicate is said to be regular if is a regular language over the alphabet .
A predicate is regular if and only if it can be defined by a monadic second order formula , or equivalently by an existential monadic second order formula, where the only atomic predicate is the successor function .
A predicate is regular if and only if it can be defined by a first order logic formula , where the atomic predicates are:
the order relation ,
the predicate stating that a number is a multiple of a constant , that is .
Congruence arithmetic
The language of congruence arithmetic is defined as the es |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Real%20Blac%20Chyna | The Real Blac Chyna is a reality television series starring Blac Chyna. It premiered on July 14, 2019, on Zeus Network. The show ended on October 6, 2019.
Development
On May 15, 2019, it was reported that Blac Chyna had signed a deal with Zeus Network to star and produce her own docu-series. The show made headlines while filming when Chyna's ex-partner Rob Kardashian refused to allow their daughter Dream to appear on the show, as well as for the intense fight between Chyna and her mother Tokyo Toni in the show's premiere episode. On September 1, 2019, Zeus released the first episode for free on YouTube, garnering over 6 million views. On October 8, 2019, Zeus released the second episode for free on YouTube, garnering over 6 million views.
The show later began airing on January 7, 2021 on We TV.
Series synopsis
Overview and casting
The Real Blac Chyna chronicles the everyday life and struggles of entrepreneur Blac Chyna.
Several members of Chyna's inner circle appear as supporting cast members in confessional interview segments throughout the series. They include her best friend Treasure Gemz, her assistant Ashton Levi, her mother Tokyo Toni, her manager Jamaal Terrance and her hair stylist Alex Jairus. During the season, Treasure, Ashton and Jamaal are phased out of the series, after each having a falling out with Chyna.
On November 2, 2019, Chyna confirmed that a second season was in the works.
Episodes
References
External links
2010s American reality television series
2019 American television series debuts
Cultural depictions of socialites
English-language television shows
Television shows set in Los Angeles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo%20Toni%27s%20Finding%20Love%20ASAP%21 | Tokyo Toni's Finding Love ASAP! is a reality television dating game show series starring Tokyo Toni, the mother of Blac Chyna. It premiered on November 10, 2019, on Zeus Network.
Development
After a controversial appearance on The Real Blac Chyna, it was announced that Tokyo Toni would star in her own show on Zeus Network.
Series synopsis
Overview and casting
Tokyo Toni's Finding Love ASAP! is an unscripted dating show which chronicles Tokyo Toni's search for a man.
In addition to the show's fifteen contestants, Love & Hip Hop: Hollywoods Lyrica Garrett appears as Toni's friend and confidante, while Toni's daughter Blac Chyna makes guest appearances in two episodes.
Contestants
Call-out order
Color key
Winner
Runner-up
3rd place
Bottom 2
Eliminated
Quit
Episodes
References
External links
2010s American reality television series
2019 American television series debuts
English-language television shows
Television shows set in Los Angeles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon%20%28service%29 | Neon, marketed as NEON until 2020, is a subscription video on demand (SVOD) service offering a range of television shows and movies. The platform is a division of Sky Network Television Limited.
History
Launch
In February 2015, Sky launched its Neon streaming service to allow New Zealanders to stream a range of HBO television shows including Game of Thrones, Crossbones, and True Blood. When Neon was first launched, Sky offered a 30-day free trial period for Neon, with normal subscriptions costing NZ$20 a month. Sky had originally planned to launch Neon in 2014 but was delayed by systems bugs. Neon's February launch was timed to compete with the US-based streaming service Netflix, which launched in New Zealand in March 2015.
In October 2016, a Roy Morgan poll found that 22,000 New Zealanders subscribed to Neon, which was outranked by the rival streaming services Netflix (264,000) and Spark New Zealand's Lightbox (128,000).
When Neon first launched in 2015, it only offered a TV and Movies package worth $20 a month. In August 2018, Neon launched an additional TV-only subscription package worth $12 a month. In September 2019, Neon replaced these two packages with a combined television and movies package for NZ$13.95 a month in order to compete with Netflix, Lightbox, and Amazon Prime Video.
In October 2019, a Horizon Research survey found that 7% of more than 1,000 New Zealanders surveyed used Neon. The survey found that 59% used TVNZ OnDemand, 29% used Sky TV, 56% used Netflix, and 18% used Lightbox.
Merger with Lightbox
In mid December 2019, Sky announced that it would be purchasing Spark New Zealand's streaming service Lightbox. In mid December 2019, Sky announced that it would be purchasing Lightbox with the intention of merging Neon and Lightbox into one combined streaming service in 2020.
On 11 June, Neon experienced technical difficulties that caused users to be locked out of the app. In mid-June 2020, Sky announced that Lightbox would be merged into Neon, with Lightbox app being replaced by a Neon app on 7 July 2020. The merged service retained the Neon brand but continues to use Lightbox's interface and incorporates content drawn from both Neon and the old Lightbox. Existing Spark customers can receive a NZ$9.95 discount.
On 7 July, Sky formally merged the two streaming services, with the Lightbox app being revamped as Neon. The revamped streaming service allows users to stream on two devices, download films and shows onto devices, rent movies, and create user profiles. Following the merger, there were reports about technical glitches including users being unable to log into the app and the absence of the watchlist feature. Neon responded that it would address those issues.
Expansion and price hikes
On 23 February 2021, Sky reported that its total subscriber base for all of its services and platforms had risen to 990,000 including 154,000 former Lightbox subscribers, who had continued using Neon. Sky confirmed that one third of f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther%20von%20Hahn | Walther von Hahn (born 26 April 1942 in Marburg/Lahn) is a German linguist and computer scientist. From 1977 to 2007, von Hahn taught Computer Science and Linguistics at Universität Hamburg.
Education and career
Von Hahn studied German linguistics and literature, philosophy, and Latin and Protestant theology in Marburg/Lahn from 1962 to 1969. He received his PhD at the same university, with Prof. Dr. Ludwig Erich Schmitt. He moved to Hamburg University (Germany) where he gave seminars in German linguistics, becoming a faculty professor in 1977. At that time, research and teaching shifted to more formal fields in the German seminar thereat. In 1987 he was appointed a full professor in the computer science department. Since then, he has kept the right to teach in both departments. He was the founder of the “Natural Language Systems Division” (NatS).
Research
Research fields
Computational Linguistics: Morphology, Lexicography,
Artificial Intelligence: knowledge representation, machine (aided) translation
Digital Humanities : data-modelling, vagueness and uncertainty representation in DH
Specialized Language Communication
Major research projects
Following the lines of technical language research, von Hahn established (within German linguistics) the “HAM-RPM” project group (funding: German Science Foundation) and the Artificial Intelligence-centered group HAM-ANS (funding: Ministry of Research and Technology), which have been very influential in the German linguistic and AI communities. As member of the CS department, he initiated and managed a national preparatory project for speech-to-speech machine translation with broad industrial and academic cooperation and participated in the international follow-up research project VERBMOBIL.
From 1992 to 1998, von Hahn led the project DB(R)-MAT, the first major machine aided translation project involving languages in Central-Eastern Europe (Romanian and Bulgarian). The project is based on an innovative paradigm of linking multilingual lexical material onto a language independent ontology. In this way concepts were separated from their linguistic realization. This principle was applied in a European follow-up project "Language Technology foe eLearning" (LT4eL), in which he was involved (2005-2008)
From 2001 to 2003, he was the first director of the interdisciplinary group "Computerphioogie" at the University of Hamburg, one of the first initiatives in Digital Humanities in Germany, and initiated the first curriculum in this domain in Germany.
He is one of the main contributors to the development of computational linguistics and Digital Humanities at the University of Bucharest and constant promoter of the cooperation between the University of Hamburg and St-Kliment Ohrdiski University of Sofia, the University of Bucharest and Charles-University Prague
Since 2015, his research has been focused on computer modelling and the representation of vagueness in the digital humanities.
Awards and hono |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African%20Jesuit%20AIDS%20Network | African Jesuit AIDS Network (AJAN) is a network of organizations that fight against HIV/AIDS, created on June 21, 2002, by Jesuits from Africa and Madagascar. Based in Nairobi, it operates in several countries around the world, being present in 20 countries in 2017. It has on several occasions championed the funding deficit to fight against VIH/AIDS in Africa. It is one of the entities in the Catholic Church that handles about 25% of AIDS patients worldwide and can reach 100% of Africa in remote areas, according to the Vatican studies.
Michael Czerny SJ founded and headed the entity from 2002 to 2010. The reason for the organization's creation was "to encourage the Jesuits in Africa and Madagascar to find and develop projects" related to the fight against AIDS. These entities can be groups of people infected with the virus or affected by the virus, including those who fight against stigmatization and discrimination, who promote responsibility and prevention, and who are sensitive to the culture, faith, and spirituality of the people. Czerny argues that limiting the fight against AIDS to condom use is not enough, and conveys that the selfishness seen in the pandemic is alien to African values, and is a subconscious reaction against imposed, foreign values. At the end of the 2010s, Paterne Mombe, an AIDS expert in Africa trained in Biology at Burkina Faso, headed the network. He decided to take up the fight against AIDS after helping AIDS patients from Uganda. "It is not about telling them to use the condom or not to do it, but to form a critical conscience so that they can make an informed choice and choose what they think is best for them," he said in an interview.
References
Humanitarian aid organizations
Society of Jesus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Peacock%20original%20programming | Peacock is an American over-the-top subscription video on demand streaming service owned and operated by NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The full service launched on July 15, 2020.
Original programming
Drama
Comedy
Animation
Unscripted
Docuseries
Reality
Variety
Sports
Co-productions
These shows have been commissioned by Peacock with a partner network.
Continuations
These shows have been picked up by Peacock for additional seasons after having aired previous seasons on another network.
Specials
These shows are one-time original events or supplementary content related to original TV shows.
Non-English language
Comedy
Unscripted
Reality
Exclusive international distribution
Original films
Feature films
Documentaries
Specials
Exclusive international distribution
Upcoming original programming
Drama
Comedy
Animation
Unscripted
Docuseries
Reality
Co-productions
Specials
Non-English language
Drama
Unscripted
Docuseries
In development
Upcoming original films
Feature films
Documentaries
Notes
References
Peacock |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount%20Networks%20UK%20%26%20Australia | Paramount Networks UK & Australia (formerly ViacomCBS Networks UK & Australia) is a division of Paramount Global. The unit launched in 2020 and is based in London, United Kingdom, with a local office in Sydney, Australia.
Units
See also
Pluto TV
Nickelodeon
Noggin
References
External links
Paramount Networks Australia & New Zealand
British subsidiaries of foreign companies
Australian subsidiaries of foreign companies
UK and Australia
Mass media companies established in 2020
Mass media companies based in London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Human%20Ideas | Pre-Human Ideas is a compilation album released by Phil Elverum under the name Mount Eerie, on November 12, 2013. The album consists of computerised versions of songs from his 2012 releases Clear Moon and Ocean Roar, plus 2 organ excerpts from the songs "Pale Lights" and "The Place Lives" from Clear Moon and Ocean Roar respectively.
The album is a derivation from Elverum's typical sound with his vocals layered in autotune and pitched higher in some instances to resemble a female voice.
Recording
Recording took place over the time span of 3 years in the recording studio Unknown in Anacortes, Washington.
Reception
The album received generally positive reviews upon release. Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from music critics, the album has received an average score of 72 based on 10 critics, indicating "generally favourable reviews".
Heather Phares of AllMusic wrote that the album was "More than just musical footnotes, these reworkings add extra depth to Mount Eerie's already complex body of work". Alex Young of Consequence of Sound said of the album "Overall, it’s barely more than a set of curios, which may have been better off released as a free download". Eric Hill of Exclaim! described the album as "sweet and creepy" and thinking that the experimentation, on the whole, was a success. Robert Ham of Paste wrote that the album "certainly has a welcome place in his vast and varied discography".
Legacy
Eric Hill of Exclaim! Included the album in a guide to Elverum's music, however told readers to avoid it.
Track listing
Personnel
Phil Elverum – songwriting, vocals
Production
Timothy Stollenwerk – digital mastering
John Golden – vinyl mastering
References
2013 albums
Mount Eerie albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akademset | Akademset (, Academic Network), or All-Union Academic network — was a computer network for providing digital connection of scientific and civil institutions across the USSR, that was established in 1978. In fact, it was a Soviet forerunner to the Internet and had a connection with ARPANET and other western analogues using the common digital standard called X.25. After dissolution of the Soviet Union it was re-created under the name ROKSON (РОКСОН), and nowadays its extant components may be considered as a local area network within the Runet and the Internet.
Creation and development
LVC
In 1974 in Leningrad, at the Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, a computing subdivision was established that was entitled Leningrad Computing Center (ЛВЦ/LVC) of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (АН СССР/AN SSSR). The main goal of LVC was the creation of the Computing Center for Collective Use (ВЦКП/VCKP) for staff of all of the institutions (over 40) of the Leningrad Scientific Center (ЛНЦ/LNC). It was proven effective, that was specially remarked by AN SSSR and the authorities of the city and the country, and by the end of 1977 the VCKP was used by over 15 city's scientific institutions, that exploited computer performance of the Center. Following that, the Presidium of the AN SSSR asked the Government of the Soviet Union to convert LVC into the Leningrad Research Computer Center (ЛНИВЦ/LNIVC) that was founded on January 19, 1978. Non-academic institutions, including factories, began to join its computing network. The network became known as ИВСКП/IVSKP — "Information and computing system for collective use".
LNIVC was in fact functioning as a central node of the forming city-wide computer network which began to be called LIVSAN/ЛИВСАН — "Leningrad information-computer network of the AN" (SSSR). In 1979 scientists at the AN considered it to be a success and began planning such network country-wide under the name Akademset. In 1978 LNIVC was reformed into an institution nowadays known as St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
In 1982 in Moscow, a dedicated research institution, VNIIPAS, was established to serve as the central node of the Akademset with the abroad X.25 connection to Austria to International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. Links to most of "socialist countries" were also established, including satellite ones to Cuba, Mongolia and Vietnam.
NATO study
In 1986 in Brussels, a NATO analysis was published, entitled "The Status of Soviet Civil Science". It contained a dedicated section about Akademset, including its planned all-Union scheme. It was stated that "the first phase of the network was accepted for operation in 1986 by a governmental commission, including about 55 interactive computers". The book also reads: The initial problems encountered in building Akademset’ have stemmed from the communications and hardware limitations ... For instance, in order to achieve high |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ying%20Guo | Ying Guo is a Chinese biostatistician specializing in biomedical imaging, neuroimaging, and high-dimensional data analysis. She is a professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics at Emory University, where she directs the Emory Center for Biomedical Imaging Statistics.
Education and career
Guo graduated from Renmin University of China in 1998, and earned a master's degree in statistics there in 2000. She completed a Ph.D. biostatistics at Emory University in 2004. Her dissertation, Assessing Agreement for Survival Outcomes, was supervised by Amita Manatunga. After continuing to work at Emory as a research assistant professor, she was given a tenure-track position in 2006. She became acting director of the Center for Biomedical Imaging Statistics in 2014, and director in 2016. She was promoted to full professor at Emory in 2019.
At Emory, her regular collaborators include two other female statisticians, Manatunga and Limin Peng.
Recognition
Guo was president of the Georgia chapter of the American Statistical Association for 2017–2018. In 2018, the American Statistical Association listed her as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. She was elected chair of the ASA Statistics in Imaging program in 2021.
References
External links
Home page
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Chinese statisticians
Women statisticians
Biostatisticians
Computer vision researchers
Neuroimaging researchers
Renmin University of China alumni
Emory University alumni
Emory University faculty
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Chinese expatriates in the United States
Expatriate academics in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20student%20services | International student services are the services, supports and programming available to undergraduate and graduate international students provided by the institution at which they are studying. These services have been developed to meet international students' specific needs during their post-secondary studies and can include: orientation programming, immigration advising, academic and language support, financial aid support, employment services, health and wellness support, residence and housing support, social programming, and post-graduation planning support.
History
Canada
Student affairs services began to emerge in Canada at the end of the 19th century but it was only with the formation of the University Counselling and Placement Association (UCPA) in 1958 that international student advising was included as a service provided by student affairs professionals.
Students from other countries had been coming to study at colleges and universities in Canada since the late 1800s but increased greatly after World War II, which led to the founding of the national organization Friendly Relations with Overseas Students. There has also recently been an emphasis on "internationalizing" Canadian campuses, leading to more intentional recruitment of international students; with over 95% of Canadian universities including internationalization in their strategic plan. The sociocultural, economic, academic and political benefits of internationalization have been a significant impetus to adopt an internationalization strategy within most Canadian educational institutions.
When the Friendly Relations with Overseas Students was founded, there were 6,000 international students in Canada; by 2017 there were 494,525 international students in Canada, with 370,710 studying in higher education; in 2018, this number has almost doubled to about 721,000 international students. According to the Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE), this number has increased to 530, 540 international students studying in Canada at all levels of study in 2020. These students come from all over the world, with the majority coming from India and China. Ontario has the largest number of international students studying across the province following by British Columbia. In 2018, international students in Canada contributed an estimated $21.6 billion to Canada’s GDP and in 2016 supported almost 170,000 jobs for Canada’s middle class.
Types of International Student Services
Services provided by the international office
Specific international student services are provided by student affairs professionals who often work within the institution's international office or international centre, or by student affairs professionals from other departments (such as career services or wellness centres) who work in tandem with the international office to develop and deliver services for international students.
International centres or offices are often part of the institutions' student aff |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song-Chun%20Zhu | Song-Chun Zhu () is a Chinese computer scientist and applied mathematician known for his work in computer vision, cognitive artificial intelligence and robotics. Zhu currently works at Peking University and was previously a professor in the Departments of Statistics and Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Zhu also previously served as Director of the UCLA Center for Vision, Cognition, Learning and Autonomy (VCLA).
In 2005, Zhu founded the Lotus Hill Institute, an independent non-profit organization to promote international collaboration within the fields of computer vision and pattern recognition. Zhu has published extensively and lectured globally on artificial intelligence, and in 2011, he became an IEEE Fellow (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) for "contributions to statistical modeling, learning and inference in computer vision."
Zhu has two daughters, Stephanie and Yi. Zhu Yi () is a competitive figure skater.
Early life and education
Born and raised in Ezhou, China, Zhu found inspiration, when he was young, in the development of computers playing chess, sparking his interest in artificial intelligence. In 1991, Zhu earned his B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Science and Technology of China at Hefei. During his undergraduate years, Zhu, finding the computational theory of vision by the late MIT neuroscientist David Marr deeply influential, aspired to pursue a general unified theory of vision and AI. In 1992, Zhu continued his study of computer vision at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. At Harvard, Zhu studied under the supervision of American mathematician David Mumford and gained an introduction to "probably approximately correct" (PAC) learning under the instruction of Leslie Valiant. Zhu concluded his studies at Harvard in 1996 with a Ph.D. in Computer Science and followed Mumford to the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University as a postdoctoral fellow.
Career
Following his postdoctoral fellowship, Zhu lectured briefly in Stanford University's Computer Science Department. In 1998, he joined Ohio State University as an assistant professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Cognitive Science. In 2002, Zhu joined the University of California, Los Angeles in the Departments of Computer Science and Statistics as associate professor, rising to the rank of full professor in 2006. At UCLA, Zhu established the Center for Vision, Cognition, Learning and Autonomy. His chief research interest has resided in pursuing a unified statistical and computational framework for vision and intelligence, which includes the Spatial, Temporal, and Causal And-Or graph (STC-AOG) as a unified representation and numerous Monte Carlo methods for inference and learning.
In 2005, Zhu established an independent non-profit organization in his hometown of Ezhou, the Lotus Hill Institute (LHI). LHI has been involved with collecting large-scale dataset of images and annotati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20obesity%20rate | This is a list of countries ranked by the proportion of the population that is obese. The data, barring the United States, is derived from The World Factbook authored by the Central Intelligence Agency, which gives the adult prevalence rate for obesity, defined as "the percent of a country's population considered to be obese". Data for U.S. obesity prevalence is derived from CDC data, recorded through the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) in March 2017 – 2020.
See also
List of countries by body mass index
References
Obesity
Social science indices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXKI-FM | DXKI (90.3 FM), on-air as 90.3 Strong Radio, is a radio station owned by DCG Radio-TV Network and operated by Saturn Media Advertisement and Digital Marketing Corporation. The station's studio is located along Max Suniel St., Brgy. Carmen, Cagayan de Oro, and its transmitter is located at Upper Sumpong, Brgy. Indahag, Cagayan de Oro.
It was formerly known as 90.3 EQ and Star FM under Bombo Radyo Philippines through its now-defunct licensee Consolidated Broadcasting System from 1992 to circa 2010, when it went off the air.
References
Radio stations in Cagayan de Oro
Radio stations established in 1992
Radio stations established in 2019 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud%20Native%20Computing%20Foundation | The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is a Linux Foundation project that was founded in 2015 to help advance container technology and align the tech industry around its evolution.
It was announced alongside Kubernetes 1.0, an open source container cluster manager, which was contributed to the Linux Foundation by Google as a seed technology. Founding members include Google, CoreOS, Mesosphere, Red Hat, Twitter, Huawei, Intel, Cisco, IBM, Docker, Univa, and VMware. Today, CNCF is supported by over 450 members. In order to establish qualified representatives of the technologies governed by the CNCF, a program was announced at the inaugural CloudNativeDay in Toronto in August, 2016.
Dan Kohn (who also helped launch the Core Infrastructure Initiative) led CNCF as executive director until May 2020. The foundation announced Priyanka Sharma, director of Cloud Native Alliances at GitLab, would step into a general manager role in his place. Sharma describes CNCF as "a very impactful organization built by a small group of people but [within] a very large ecosystem" and believes that CNCF is entering into a "second wave" due to increased industry awareness and adoption.
In August 2018 Google announced that it was handing over operational control of Kubernetes to the community. Since its creation, CNCF has launched a number of hosted sub-projects.
In January 2020, the CNCF annual report for the previous year was issued and reflected significant growth to the foundation across membership, event attendance, training, and industry investment. In 2019, CNCF grew by 50% since the previous year with 173 new members and nearly 90% growth in end-users. The report revealed a 78% increase in the usage of Kubernetes in production.
CNCF projects
CNCF technology projects are cataloged with a maturity level of Sandbox, Incubated, and Graduated, in ascending order. The defined criteria include rate of adoption, longevity and whether the open source project can be relied upon to build a production-grade product.
CNCF's process brings projects in as incubated projects and then aims to move them through to graduation, which implies a level of process and technology maturity. A graduated project reflects overall maturity; these projects have reached a tipping point in terms of diversity of contribution, community scale/growth, and adoption.
The CNCF Sandbox is a place for early-stage projects, and it was first announced in March 2019. The Sandbox replaces what had originally been called the "inception project level".
In July 2020, Priyanka Sharma stated that CNCF is looking to increase the number of open source projects in the cloud native ecosystem.
Graduated projects
containerd
containerd is an industry-standard core container runtime. It is currently available as a daemon for Linux and Windows, which can manage the complete container lifecycle of its host system. In 2015, Docker donated the OCI Specification to The Linux Foundation with a reference impleme |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrazo | Abrazo or El abraso (meaning Embrace and The embrace in Spanish) may refer to:
Abrazo Community Health Network (Abrazo Health), one of the largest health care delivery system in Arizona, United States
Abrazo Arizona Heart Hospital specializing in cardiovascular care in Phoenix, Arizona
Abrazo Arrowhead Campus
Abrazo Central Campus
Abrazo Maryvale Campus
Abrazo Scottsdale Campus
Abrazo Scottsdale Campus Arizona
Abrazo West Campus
Refuge Abrazo de Maipú, a refuge located on the Trinity Peninsula of the Antarctic Peninsula, now closed
See also
Abrazo de Vergara or in English Convention of Vergara, a treaty successfully ending the major fighting in Spain's First Carlist War
Abrazos Rotos or in English Broken Embraces, a 2009 Spanish romantic thriller film written, produced, and directed by Pedro Almodóvar
El abrazo (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Desmodium%20species | Desmodium is a large genus of plants in the pea family, Fabaceae (tribe Desmodieae). This is a list of species in the Genus Desmodium from Kew's Plants of the World Online database and other sources:
Moved species
Desmodium velutinum (Willd.) DC. has been now moved to a separate monotypic genus Polhillides velutina .
References
Desmodium |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge%20as%20a%20service | Knowledge as a service (KaaS) is a computing service that delivers information to users, backed by a knowledge model, which might be drawn from a number of possible models based on decision trees, association rules, or neural networks. A knowledge as a service provider responds to knowledge requests from users through a centralised knowledge server, and provides an interface between users and data owners.
Knowledge as a service, is one of a number of "... as a service" cloud computing models.
Overview
KaaS is a new type of "...as a Service" offerings that has been discussed with only nascent examples demonstrated in recent computer (2019) science conferences, in particular ISWC '19, the 18th International Semantic Web Conference. At that conference, it was described how knowledge can be made live and evolve on the web allowing users to learn directly from elaborated knowledge, now appearing in the form of knowledge graphs (KGs). KaaS appear when KGs are accessed via services This is opposed to DaaS which might "compute large volumes of data; integrate and analyzes that data; and publish it in real-time, using Web service APIs" (from Data as a Service) where the KaaS is able to exploit context - both the context of the user in relation to their information requests of the KaaS (where and when they make the request) and also the context of the information in relation to some objective or purpose of the users either understood by the KaaS automatically or indicated to it by the user.
KaaS is described as being more related to Data as a Service, Content as a Service and other services which supply information to users, more than other *aaS, such as Software as a Service which provide functionality however, the idea that a KaaS may analyse context at query time indicates that there is overlap between KaaS and *aaS such as Search as a Service and that perhaps not all KaaS responses are idempotent since their results depend on a context that might be time-dependent.
Differentiating knowledge from data
As per the description in the overview above, KaaS is differentiated from DaaS or other information *aaSes by its delivery of "knowledge" as opposed to "data" where knowledge is defined by relations of data/information to context that is relevant to the user. This then indicates that the sensible description of KaaS as a service type is dependent on the differentiation of knowledge from data and/or information.
Conceptual models that make such a differentiation such as the so-called DIKW pyramid have existed for perhaps more than 40 years (see a 1974 journal article about this) however definitions are not stable and universally accepted (see the discussion about the conceptualizations of DIKW within the DIKW Wikipedia article that question value of wisdom). The knowledge component of DIKW is generally agreed to be an elusive concept which is difficult to define, however Rowley 2007, in a well known student textbook differentiated knowledge from data |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang%20Jian%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Wang Jian (; born October 1962) is a Chinese computer scientist currently serving as chief technology officer of Alibaba Group. He is an editor of Communications of the ACM.
Biography
Wang was born in October 1962. He received his bachelor's degree and doctor's degree from Hangzhou University in 1984 and 1990, respectively. After graduating, he joined the faculty of the university and was promoted to professor in 1992. He was director of Department of Psychology between 1994 and 1998. In 1996 he was a visiting professor at New York State University. In 1999 he joined the Microsoft Research Asia. In September 2008 he was offered a position as chief architect of Alibaba Group. In August 2012 he became chief technology officer. In October 2019, Hurun Report listed him as the 1008th richest person in China with an estimated wealth of 4.1 billion yuan.
Honours and awards
November 22, 2019 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)
References
1962 births
Living people
Alibaba Group people
Hangzhou University alumni
Businesspeople in information technology
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseline%27s%20Cabaret | Joseline's Cabaret is a reality television series that premiered on January 19, 2020, on the Zeus Network. It documents the interactions between Puerto Rican rapper Joseline Hernandez and several young women that compete to dance with Hernandez during her cabaret shows, which often involve verbal and physical altercations. Many cast members are invited back for multiple seasons, while the second season sees the women compete for a $10,000 cash prize.
The series has aired four seasons, which are uniquely subtitled after where they were filmed – Miami (2020), Atlanta (2021), Las Vegas (2022), and New York (2023). A four-episode audition special aired in between the first and second seasons in 2020.
Development
On June 1, 2017, Joseline Hernandez quit Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta after six seasons, amid tensions with creator Mona Scott-Young and the show's producers. On January 8, 2018, it was reported that Hernandez had signed a deal with We TV to star in her own docu-series, produced by Carlos King. The project, then titled Joseline Takes Miami, initially began filming in July 2018. On March 4, 2019, it was reported that production on Joseline Takes Miami had been stalled and that the network was requesting reshoots.
On October 11, 2019, it was announced that Joseline had signed a deal with Zeus Network, a subscription-based influencer-driven streaming service, to star and produce her own projects. On October 22, 2019, Zeus released a teaser of Joseline's Cabaret. On December 18, 2019, Zeus released an official trailer. On January 10, 2020, it was announced that Joseline's Cabaret: Miami, the first incarnation of a planned reality television franchise, would premiere January 19, 2020. Joseline's Cabaret: Miami would be one of three shows featuring Joseline to air simultaneously throughout January and February 2020, she would also appear VH1's Love & Hip Hop: Miami and We TV's Marriage Boot Camp: Hip Hop Edition.
On February 8, 2020, Joseline announced that season two of Joseline's Cabaret would be filmed in Atlanta. On September 21, 2020, Zeus confirmed that they had renewed the series. The show's second incarnation, Joseline's Cabaret: Atlanta, premiered on April 18, 2021. On December 10, 2020, We TV announced they are acquired the television rights to both Joseline's Cabaret: Miami and The Real Blac Chyna, which aired from April 15, 2021, albeit in censored form.
On March 2, 2021, Joseline confirmed that the third season will be filmed in Las Vegas. On December 20, 2021, Zeus announced that the show's third incarnation, Joseline's Cabaret: Las Vegas, which premiered on January 16, 2022.
Series synopsis
Overview and casting
Miami (season 1)
Joseline's Cabaret: Miami chronicles the everyday life of Joseline Hernandez as she struggles to launch a cabaret show in Miami, Florida. The show is set in G5ive Miami, a strip club where Joseline worked a decade ago, and provides an inside look into the every day lives of strippers and sex workers, remin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UNESCO%20Global%20Geoparks%20in%20Latin%20America | Latin America is represented under the Global Geoparks Network by the geoparks of the Latin American Geoparks Network (Red GEOLAC). As of 2019, it includes 7 UNESCO Global Geoparks and further projects are in progress seeking UNESCO status or that of national geopark in South America, Central America and the Caribbean
UNESCO Global Geoparks
Aspiring and planned geoparks
According to the register of GeoLAC, the following geopark projects are in an aspiring phase (documentation close to submission to UNESCO or already submitted), or under planning, in a hatching phase.
The Latin American Geoparks Network
History
Geoparks incitatives in Latin America have been the subject of geoscience conferences since 2001 and the first member, Araripe, Brazil was admitted to the Global Geoparks Network in 2005. The 1st Latin American and the Caribbean Conference of Geoparks in 2010 issued the "Declaration of Araripe", stating that“the conservation, valorisation and education of the Geological Heritage – the memory of the Earth–, the Natural Heritage and Cultural Heritage, tangible and intangible, are subject to sustainable development and correspond to the need and concerns of the people in the continental region of Latin America and the Caribbean" and
"It shall allow the development of instruments for regional and global cooperation through exchange of experiences and management practices among Geoparks ..."The "1st Symposium of Geoparks" in Arequipa, Peru issued the "Declaration of Arequipa", confirming the reaffirming the Declaration of Araripe and"advancing with the operational guidelines of the Latin American and Caribbean UNESCO Global Geoparks... with the UNESCO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean ... assuming the (transitory) responsibility of moving forward with the creation of the rules of operation and other communication objectives in conjunction with the signatory partners."The official declaration of the foundation of the UNESCO Global Geoparks Network for Latin America and the Caribbean (GeoLAC) was issued in 2017 May, during the "4th Latin American and Caribbean Symposium on Geoparks", by four founding members (Araripe, Grutas del Palacio, Comarca Minera and Mixteca Alta UNESCO Global Geoparks).
The network was enlarged with 3 new members in 2019 (Colca y Volcanes de Andagua, Imbabura, Kütralküra) and aspiring and planned geoparks are also related to the regional geopark network.
Recognition of Latin America's geodiversity under different international frameworks
World Heritage sites
Twelve sites are represented currently on the World Heritage list under criterion VIII, as outstanding representatives of Earth's history:
Los Glaciares National Park (Argentina),
Ischigualasto / Talampaya Natural Parks (Argentina),
Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park (Costa Rica, Panama),
Desembarco del Granma National Park (Cuba),
Morne Trois Pitons National Park (Dominica),
Galápagos Islands (Ecuador),
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrestling%20at%20the%202007%20Military%20World%20Games | Wrestling at the 2007 Military World Games was held in Hyderabad, India from 16 to 20 October 2007.
Medal summary
Men's freestyle
Men's Greco-Roman
Medal table
References
External links
UWW Database
Official website
Wrestling
2007
Military World Games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rensenware | Rensenware (; stylized as rensenWare) is ransomware that infects Windows computers. It was created as a joke by Kangjun Heo (; alias "0x00000FF") and first appeared in 2017. Rensenware is unusual as an example of ransomware in that it does not request the user pay the creator of the virus to decrypt their files, instead requiring the user to achieve a required number of points in the bullet hell game Touhou Seirensen ~ Undefined Fantastic Object before any decryption can take place. The main window displays Minamitsu Murasa, a character from the game. Heo released a patch that neutralizes Rensenware after accidentally infecting himself with it.
Description
Rensenware was developed by Korean undergraduate student and programmer Kangjun Heo for Windows operating systems out of boredom as a joke within the Touhou Project fandom. When executed, the program scans and encrypts all files on the computer that end in certain extensions using AES-256 and appends ".RENSENWARE" to the filename. The ransomware was first discovered by MalwareHunterTeam on April 6, 2017.
Payload
Once the files have been encrypted, a warning window depicting the character Minamitsu Murasa from the Touhou Project is displayed, which cannot be closed. The program requires the user to play the bullet hell video game Touhou Seirensen ~ Undefined Fantastic Object, which is not included with the software meaning they must download it on their own, and score at least 200 million points in the "Lunatic" level of difficulty before any decryption may take place (the program automatically detects the game's process "th12" and its accumulated points). The payload window advises the user not to kill the Rensenware main program until their files have successfully been decrypted, otherwise they will lose them permanently as the decryption keys are not locally stored.
Neutralisation tool
Heo accidentally infected himself overnight and found that he was unable to get the necessary score. He later released a piece of software that neutralized Rensenware (by setting a custom score and injecting it into the game, satisfying the Rensenware program requirements) onto GitHub with an apology. He also released a small part of the ransomware source code without the payload.
References
External links
Ransomware
Touhou Project |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean%20%28proof%20assistant%29 | Lean is a proof assistant and programming language. It is based on the calculus of constructions with inductive types. It is an open-source project hosted on GitHub. It was made by Microsoft Research.
History
Initially launched by Leonardo de Moura at Microsoft Research in 2013.
Lean 3 was implemented as a virtual machine, which made it less efficient due to overhead associated with interpretation, making it less competitive compared to other proof assistants such as Coq.
In 2021, Lean 4 was released with a reimplementation of the Lean theorem prover capable of producing C code which is then compiled, enabling the development of efficient domain-specific automation. Another improvement compared to the previous version was ability to avoid touching C++ code in order to obtain certain features.
Lean 4 is not backwards-compatible with Lean 3.
Overview
Libraries
In 2017, the project adopted a user-maintained library mathlib with the goal to digitize pure mathematics research. As of November 2023, mathlib had formalized over 127,000 theorems and 70,000 definitions in Lean.
Editors integration
Lean integrates with:
Visual Studio Code
Neovim
Emacs
Interfacing is done via a client-extension and Language Server Protocol server.
It has native support for Unicode symbols, which can be typed using LaTeX-like sequences, such as "\times" for "×". Lean can also be compiled to JavaScript and accessed in a web browser and has extensive support for meta-programming.
Examples (Lean 3)
The natural numbers can be defined as an inductive type. This definition is based on the Peano axioms and states that every natural number is either zero or the successor of some other natural number.
inductive nat : Type
| zero : nat
| succ : nat → nat
Addition of natural numbers can be defined recursively, using pattern matching.
definition add : nat → nat → nat
| n zero := n
| n (succ m) := succ (add n m)
This is a simple proof in lean in term mode.
theorem and_swap : p ∧ q → q ∧ p :=
assume h1 : p ∧ q,
⟨h1.right, h1.left⟩
This same proof can be accomplished using tactics.
theorem and_swap (p q : Prop) : p ∧ q → q ∧ p :=
begin
assume h : (p ∧ q), -- assume p ∧ q is true
cases h, -- extract the individual propositions from the conjunction
split, -- split the goal conjunction into two cases: prove p and prove q separately
repeat { assumption }
end
Usage
Lean has gotten attention from mathematicians Thomas Hales and Kevin Buzzard. Hales is using it for his project, Formal Abstracts. Buzzard uses it for the Xena project. One of the Xena Project's goals is to rewrite every theorem and proof in the undergraduate math curriculum of Imperial College London in Lean.
In 2021, Lean was used to formalize a new proof by Peter Scholze in the area of condensed mathematics, proving that Lean can be useful at the cutting edge of mathematical research.
See also
Dependent type
List of proof assistants
mimalloc
Type theory
Focused Research |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20FlixBus%20bus%20partners | List of bus companies operating - intercity bus services on the FlixBus network. Flixbus describes itself as "not owning any buses", contracting all services to small-to-medium or mittelstand bus companies, which it calls "bus partners".
Belarus
IP BayerTrans, Minsk
Belgium
Cars Heyvaert & Spinnoy NV.
Coach Partners Brabant NV
Coach Partners West-Vlaanderen NV
Demerstee BVBA
Demuynck & Vansteelandt
FR Coach Partners West Vlaanderen, Kortijk
FR Demuynck & Vansteelandt, Bellegem
Jumbo Lines, Bury
UK Staf Cars, Lommel
De Vrij Travel, NV
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Transturist d.d. Tuzla, Tuzla
Brazil
Expresso Adamantina, Dracena
Santa Maria, São Bernardo do Campo
Primar, São José do Rio Preto
Satélite Norte, Goiânia
Levare, São José do Rio Preto
Bulgaria
Detelina Drita EOOD, Plovdiv
Croatia
Autoherc d.o.o.Metkovic
Brioni d.d.
Delminium Travel d.o.o.
Hiems, Split
Obrt za prijevoz putnika Velebit Tours, Gospić
Prijevoznički obrt Antonio Tours, Vlašići
Prijevoznički OBRT Josip Knežević, Plitvička Jezera
Slavonija Bus, Velika Kopanica
Vincek , Radovan Novi Marof
Czech Republic
Gumdrop , Praha
Leo Express, Prague
Trado Bus, Třebíč
Umbrella Coach & Buses, Kunratice
Denmark
Abildskou A/S, Aarhus
DitoBus Excursions A/S
Gislinge Turistfart, Fårevejle
Hjallese Minibus , Odense
Holstebro Turistbusser , Holstebro
John's Turist-Og Minibus, Nykøbing Falster
Kagans Turist, Greve
Lyngby Turistfart , Rødovre
Nyborg Rejser og Turistfart, Nyborg
Papuga, Brørup
Roskilde Turistfart og Rejsebureau, Karlslunde
Rybussen, Ry
Silkebus Silkeborg Busselskab, Silkeborg
Sinding-Ørre Turist, Herning
Skovlunde Busser, Glostrup
Vejle Turisttrafik, Vejle
Alssund Busser
Estonia
Lux Express
France
Actibus
Arome
Autocars Bardy
Autocars Dominique - Be Green
Autocars Menguy Burban
Cars Denis
Cars Saint Laurent
Delgrange Voyages
Fransejour, Saint Mars d'Outillé
Free Dôme Evasion, Effiat
Ginhoux, Aubenas
ID Voyages, Wingles
Launoy Tourisme, Rambervilliers
Les Transports Andrieux, Ivry
Location Car Paris, Paris
Metz Evasion, Metz
Privilège Transport, Saran
SAS Autocars Faure Pays de Brive, Malemort sur Corrèze
Socha (Royer Voyages), Behren Les Forbach
The Travel Company Paris, Gonesse
Touraine Excursions, Joué les Tours
VIC Transport
Voyages Cheze, Gimel les cascades
Germany
Albus München
Anton Graf GmbH
August Becker
Autobus Oberbayern
Bader Reisen GmbH
Bamberger Busreisen 3000 GmbH
Bamberger Busreisen Krapp GmbH
Baumann Fernbus GmbH
BN Bus Betrieb Nieder GmbH
Dirr-Reisen GmbH
Freiburger Reisedienst, Freiburg i. Br.
Fritz Wellhöfer-Omnibusunternehmen , Sachsen bei Ansbach
Fuhrmann Fernbus , Rennau
Gottlieb- Reisen, Bad Essen
GradLiner Inh. Slavko Rezo, Isernhagen
Grüner Omnibusse, Rudelzhausen
Held Reisen, Oldendorf
Höber-Reisen, Delbrück-Lippling
Hörmann-Reisen , Augsburg
Joost's Ostsee Express Busreisen, Rethwisch
Klein-Wiele Reisen, Bocholt
Kofahl-Reisen, Elmenhorst-Lichtenhagen
Leibfritz, S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDisc | UDisc () is a disc golf app for scorekeeping, statistics, and discovery for smartphones and tablet computers running the Android or iOS operating system. The app is also compatible with Android's Wear OS and Apple Watch.
It gives access to an extensive community-driven course directory with user-submitted course condition updates, hole-by-hole navigation information about course layouts, and a chronological list of local PDGA-sanctioned events. Users can track the rounds they played, measure throws, track various performance metrics, and compete in worldwide leaderboards.
The app can be downloaded and used for free, but an optional in-app paid subscription to UDisc Pro unlocks more features.
History
The app was developed by Matthew Krueger and Josh Lichti, and initially released in 2012. In 2018, the PDGA partnered with UDisc and announced that "members who are current in 2019 will receive a free UDisc Pro subscription that includes unlimited scoring, statistics, and automatic scorecard syncing with friends." Starting 2022, UDisc Pro will not be included with PDGA memberships.
In late 2017, UDisc implemented an integration with Dynamic Discs Winter Marksman leagues worldwide. In June 2020, UDisc released an online version of their course directory.
UDisc Live
UDisc Live is the official scoring app for real-time statistics at various tournaments, including all PDGA National Tour and Disc Golf Pro Tour events. Data collected using the app plays an important role in the development of the sport's key statistics for comparing players.
Release Point
Since June 2018, UDisc's Release Point blog has published independent disc golf research and commentary based on data gathered from UDisc app users.
References
External links
Disc golf mass media
Sports apps |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headline%20News%20%28disambiguation%29 | Headline News or HLN is an American television news network.
Headline News may also refer to:
Headline News (album) or the title song, by Atomic Rooster, 1983
"Headline News" ("Weird Al" Yankovic song), 1994
"Headline News" (Everyday People song), 1990
"Headline News", a song by Edwin Starr, 1966
Sky News Breakfast, formerly Headline News, an Australian television program broadcast on Sky News Regional
See also
Headline, in newspapers, text indicating the nature of the article below
All Headline News, a US-based news agency, 2000–2010
CNN Philippines Headline News, an English-language morning newscast, 2015–2016 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDBe-KB | Protein Data Bank in Europe – Knowledge Base (PDBe-KB) is a community-driven, open-access, integrated resource whose mission is to place macromolecular structure data in their biological context and to make them accessible to the scientific community in order to support fundamental and translational research and education. It is part of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), based at the Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, England.
References
Medical databases
Science and technology in Cambridgeshire
South Cambridgeshire District |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Milton%20Bloch | Richard Milton Bloch (1921 – 2000) was a pioneering American computer programmer. Bloch, Grace Hopper, and Robert Campbell were the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I, an electromechanical computer which, when it began operation in 1944, was the first American programmable computer.
Early life
Bloch was born in Rochester, New York, on June 18, 1921, and grew up there, being graduated from Benjamin Franklin High School. He then attended Harvard University on a scholarship, majoring in mathematics, being graduated in 1943. He then immediately joined the Navy, as World War II was in progress, and was assigned to the Naval Research Institute. There, he was recruited by Howard Aiken to work on the Mark I project, moving to Harvard in March 1944.
Mark I work
The Harvard Mark I became operational in 1944, and was used for war work, including computation of ballistic tables, Bessel tables for electronics and other applications, and calculations used by the Manhattan Project for development of the atomic bomb.
Compilers and even assemblers had not yet been invented, so all programming was done in machine code punched into paper tape. Grace Hopper called Bloch the Mozart of the computer due to his ability to write a program in ink and have it run the first time. Robert Campbell called Bloch the primary force in getting the Mark I into productive operation.
Bloch and Campbell kept notebooks in which they wrote out pieces of code that had been checked out and were known to be correct. For instance, one of Bloch's routines computed sines for positive angles less than π/4 to 10 digits. Grace Hopper just copied Bloch's routine into her own program when needed, rather than using the (slow) sine unit built into the machine. This was an early step toward the creation of subroutines. Later, these subroutines were stored on separate paper tape rolls, although branching to one of these separate paper tapes and returning to the main program was done manually by human operators.
Later career
Bloch left Harvard in 1947. He then worked for Raytheon on development of the RAYDAC, then became general manager of Raytheon's computer division, and later vice president for technical operations at Honeywell, vice president for corporate development at the Auerbach Corporation, vice president of the advanced systems division of General Electric, and chairman and chief executive of the Artificial Intelligence Corporation and the Meiko Scientific Corporation.
Bloch died of cancer on May 22, 2000.
References
American computer programmers
American technology chief executives
United States Navy personnel of World War II
Harvard College alumni
Eastman School of Music alumni
1921 births
2000 deaths
People from Rochester, New York |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Bloch%20%28disambiguation%29 | Richard Bloch (1926–2004) was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist, founder of H&R Block.
Richard Bloch may also refer to:
Richard Milton Bloch (1921–2000), American computer programmer
Richard L. Bloch (1929–2018), American businessman |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Together%20Forever%20%28The%20Cyber%20Pet%20Song%29 | "Together Forever (The Cyber Pet Song)" is a 1998 song by Danish Eurodance band Daze. It was released as the fourth single from their first album, Super Heroes (1997), and was originally released in Scandinavia in 1997 as "Tamagotchi". The year after, it was re-released worldwide with a new title, proving to be a big hit in Scandinavia and Belgium. It peaked at number five in Sweden, number six in Finland and number eleven in both Belgium and Norway. On the Eurochart Hot 100, the single reached number 88 in February 1998.
Track listing
Charts
"Tamagotchi"
"Together Forever (The Cyber Pet Song)"
References
1998 singles
1998 songs
Daze songs
Electronic songs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trails%20in%20Minneapolis | Minneapolis is often considered one of the top biking and walking cities in the United States due to its vast network of trails and dedicated pedestrian areas. In 2020, Walk Score rated Minneapolis as 13th highest among cities over 200,000 people. Some bicycling ratings list Minneapolis at the top of all United States cities, while others list Minneapolis in the top ten. There are over of paved, protected pathways in Minneapolis for use as transportation and recreation. The city's Grand Rounds National Scenic Byway parkway system accounts for the vast majority of the city's shared-use paths at approximately of dedicated biking and walking areas. By 2008, other city, county, and park board areas accounted for approximately of additional trails, for a city-wide total of approximately of protected pathways. The network of shared biking and walking paths continued to grow into the late 2010s with the additions of the Hiawatha LRT Trail gap remediation, Min Hi Line pilot projects, and Samatar Crossing. The city also features several natural-surface hiking trails, mountain-biking paths, groomed cross-country ski trails in winter, and other pedestrian walkways.
Shared-use/mixed-use paths
Minneapolis includes a number of shared-use or mixed-use paths, which are separate from a roadway, and they support multiple recreation and transportation opportunities, such as bicycling, walking, inline skating, roller skiing, and people in wheelchairs. In the U.S. state of Minnesota, shared-use path standards in are set by Administrative Rules, chapter 8820.9995. The Minnesota Department of Transportation also provides guidance for the design of shared-use paths.
This list includes notable shared-use paths in the city limits of Minneapolis, either whole or in part, and excludes roadway-only bike lanes, hiking-only trails, and mountain bike routes:
Grand Rounds National Scenic Byway system
Paths along parkways
Memorial and Webber Parkways—
Wirth Parkway—
Dean Parkway—
William Berry Parkway—
Minnehaha Creek—
Godfrey Parkway—
West River and James I. Rice Parkways—
East River Parkway—approximately
St. Anthony Parkway—
Stinson Parkway—
Ridgeway Parkway—
Paths around lakes
Lake Nokomis—
Lake Harriet—
Bde Mka Ska—
Lake of the Isles—
Cedar Lake—
City, county, and park board paths
Cedar Lake Trail—
Diagonal Trail— in Minneapolis from city limits to Broadway Street Northeast
Dinkytown Greenway—
Hiawatha LRT Trail—
Kenilworth Trail—
Lake Hiawatha—
Little Earth Trail—
Loring Greenway—
Luce Line Trail— in Minneapolis from Xerxes Avenue North to North Morgan Avenue
Nokomis-Minnesota River Regional Trail—
The Mall Park— of a linear park with paved multi-use paths near Lake of the Isles
Midtown Greenway, including Martin Olav Sabo Bridge over Hiawatha Avenue—
Min Hi Line—approximately when complete
Minnehaha Trail—
Samatar Crossing—
Southwest LRT Trail— from France Avenue to the Midtown Greenway/Kenilworth Trail intersection
St. Ant |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahai | Fahai, born Pei Wende, was a monk who lived in Tang dynasty, and was identified as a compiler of Zen Buddhism according to the Dun-huang edition of the Platform Sutra. Fahai was a disciple of the Sixth Patriarch of Zen Buddhism, Hui-neng.
Biography
Fahai was the son of Tang chancellor Pei Xiu, and the secular name of Fahai was Pei Wende. The young Pei Wende was sent by his father to Laoshan (Hunan province) to practice Zen Buddhism. Fahai's father, the then court chancellor donated to build Miyin Temple (located in Ningxiang County, Hunan Province). The Miyin Temple host gave the Pei Wende a Buddhist name "Fahai". Fahai's master, Master Lingyou ordered ascetic practice every day. Fahai spent nearly three years cutting firewood, and delivered water for more than five hundred monks for nearly three years.
Soon after, the ascetic life of Zen Master Fahai came to a successful end and he began a three-year meditation. Master Lingyou went to the door to call the name "Fahai". The Zen master came out from his meditation room, and the doors and windows of the closed room were not damaged, which was a sign of perfection. After Fahai achieved enlightenment after three-year of meditation, the master was instructed to travel to Lushan, Jiangxi and other places, and finally resided in the Fu Mountain in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu. From the information given by local people, there was a dojo called Zexin Temple from East Jin dynasty. Therefore, the master Fahai burned a section and vowed to rebuild the dojo and samghārama for all beings. So he started digging fields and working hard, and gradually won the support of the local people and began to build temples. At Zhenjiang, he helped locals with cultivation and gradually won the support of local people and began to build temples.
Achievements
During a foundation excavation, a batch of gold was accidentally excavated, and Fahai decided to turn it over to Zhenjiang prefecture. The prefecture reported this matter to Emperor Tang Xuanzong, the emperor was deeply moved and ordered that gold be allocated directly to the temple as court support for construction. The emperor names the temple Jinshan Temple. Fahai became the first Zen master resided at Jinshan (Gold Mountain) Temple.
Before the temple was built, the Zen master had been meditating in a cave next to Jinshan Temple, and later became a well-known Zen cave. When the Jinshan Temple was successfully completed in the end, it became the largest Zen Buddhism Temple in the Jiangnan region, and master Fahai was also called the "Kaishan Pei Zu" (honourable founder) of Jinshan Temple.
Historically, Master Fahai was known by his enlightenment through asceticism practice and was admired by people throughout Jiangsu.
As a patriarch of Zen Buddhism, Fahai was one of the editors of the Platform Sutra. Fahai contributed to the translation of the sutra and left editing notes in his version of the translation and warned haphazard transmission. A famous dialogue between Faai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina%20Rossini | Carolina Rossini is a Brazilian-American attorney who focuses on intellectual property, open standard, and data privacy. She is notable for her work in intellectual property law in her native Brazil. In 2016, she was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
Biography
Rossini was born in São Paulo, Brazil. She speaks and writes English, Spanish and her native Portuguese.
Rossini holds a LL.M in Intellectual Property from Boston University, and degrees from the Sao Paulo State University-UNESP (Master in International Negotiations), University of Sao Paulo (Bachelor in Law), Instituto de Empresa-IE (MBA in E-Business).
She is married to John Wilbanks.
Career
Since 2000, Rossini has been a prominent figure within the development of ICT. On April 2, 2014, Rossini was called to the United States House of Representatives to discuss the proposed transfer of the IANA stewardship from the United States.
Rossini also played an important role in the Marco Civil legislation passed in 2014 in her native Brazil, as she was the key translator of the approved law from Portuguese to English.
An attorney by trade, Rossini has held various positions with leading technology companies and think tanks such as: Facebook, New America, Public Knowledge, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Bibliography
References
Rossini in the media
Hollywood Lobbyist Hasn't Seen The TPP Text, Cannot Read The TPP Text, But Knows What's In The TPP Text?
What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership and why are Critics Upset by it?
US Congressional Push For Release Of TPP Text; US Pressuring Nations Bilaterally?
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American women lawyers
Boston University School of Law alumni
American people of Brazilian descent
IE University
Intellectual property activism
Internet activists
São Paulo State University alumni
University of São Paulo alumni
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get%20a%20Clue%20%28game%20show%29 | Get a Clue is an American television game show hosted by Rob Belushi that aired on Game Show Network from January 6, 2020, to April 16, 2021.
Gameplay
Two teams compete for a chance to win up to $10,000 by describing and guessing words similar to the main game of Pyramid. In the first season, each team consisted of four members; the second season, which premiered on January 4, 2021, reduced the teams to three members each.
Rounds 1 and 2
Both teams get two turns per round. A category is announced (by the contestant's choice in season two), and one teammate is shown a word fitting it. That person must then describe the word to the next one in line, who tries to guess it. A correct guess scores 100 points and gives a new word to the guesser, who begins describing it for the next teammate in line. At any time, the describing contestant may pass the word to the next teammate, who immediately takes over describing it. If the same word is passed twice, an illegal clue is mentioned by the clue giver, or the guesser passes on the word and the clue giver gives an illegal clue, it is thrown out and a new word is given. The team in Round 1 has 30 seconds in season one (45 seconds in season two) to guess up to five words. In the second season, the receiver is only allowed one guess at each word, if an incorrect guess is given, the receiver is given a new word.
Each word in Round 1 is worth 100 points, and a 200-point bonus is awarded for guessing five words. These values are doubled in Round 2.
For season two, game play for Round 2 is altered. The team captain is given the choice of four categories and given a list of eight words to give to their two teammates. The captain is allowed to remove a word and the two other players have 60 seconds to guess the remaining seven words. If the players guess wrong three times on a single word, that word is taken out of play and the team must move on to the next word. Passing a word is not allowed. Like in Round 1, bonus points are given if seven out of eight words are guessed within the time limit of 60 seconds. Each team only gets to play one category in the revised Round 2.
Round 3 - Choose Your Word
Each team gets one turn in this Round 3, choosing who will give and receive clues for 60 seconds. The giver chooses a word value of 200, 400, or 600 points, with higher-value words being more difficult, and must describe it. After a word is either guessed or passed, the giver chooses a new value (the giver may choose the same value as often as desired). When 15 seconds remain in the round, a 2,000-point word becomes available, however, the giver must immediately pass on or complete the current word in order to be able to select it, and only one 2,000-point word is available to each team. Only 5 teams have correctly answered the 2,000 point word.
The team with the higher score after this round wins $1,000 and advances to the bonus round.
Tiebreaker
If the score is tied after Round 3, a tiebreaker is played in whic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%20Decker | Stefan Decker is a computer scientist, Full Professor for Database and Information Systems at RWTH Aachen University, and managing director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology. He specializes in the Semantic Web. As of 25 January 2020, his research reached 21,206 (with h-index of 66 and i10-index of 201) Google Scholar Citations, making him one of the most influential Semantic Web researchers.
He was formerly Professor of Digital Enterprise at the National University of Ireland Galway, and executive director of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Galway. Prof. Decker studied Computer Science at the University of Kaiserslautern. He received his doctorate at the Karlsruhe Technical University.
He was elected to the Royal Irish Academy in 2010.
Selected research
Bischof, Stefan, et al. "Mapping between RDF and XML with XSPARQL." Journal on Data Semantics 1.3 (2012): 147–185.
Grosof, Benjamin N., et al. "Description logic programs: combining logic programs with description logic." Proceedings of the 12th international conference on World Wide Web. 2003.
Noy, Natalya F., et al. "Creating semantic web contents with protege-2000." IEEE intelligent systems 16.2 (2001): 60–71.
Decker, Stefan, et al. "The semantic web: The roles of XML and RDF." IEEE Internet Computing 4.5 (2000): 63–73.
References
External links
Article in the Irish Times
Interview for the General-Anzeiger
Academic staff of RWTH Aachen University
Semantic Web people
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology alumni
Members of the Royal Irish Academy
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20League%20Football | Little League Football is a UK charity that promotes free-of-charge association football to children through a network of local little leagues, acting as an 'umbrella' organisation. Founded in 1968 by Frank Adey in Morden, the initial league comprised 6 teams. Little League Football now operates 16 leagues in Surrey, London and Birmingham serving over 5000 children.
History
Frank Adey, a former player for Epsom Town F.C., was also a baseball enthusiast. Following visits to the USA he was inspired by the Little League Baseball concept of free-of-charge children's sport in teams chosen to balance ability and encourage participation and he decided to apply the principles to children's football. Rules were modified to make the game more child-centric, notably reducing the size of pitches and enforcing substitutions. The principle of not charging for participation has encouraged a community-based structure but raising adequate funds to maintain operation can be a challenge.
Rules, Laws and affiliation
Although Little League has its own rules, it still adheres to the FIFA Laws of the Game, enforced by FA qualified referees. Individual local leagues may optionally affiliate to their local county FA.
References
External links
Children's charities based in England
Children's sport in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-trolling | Auto-trolling, self-cyberbullying, digital Munchausen or digital self-harm is a form of self-abuse on the Internet. It is usually done by teenagers posting fake insults on social media, attacking themselves to elicit attention and sympathy. A study in 2012 found that about 35 per cent of those who did this felt better. Studies in 2016 and 2019 found an increase in prevalence in American adolescents rising from 6 to 9 per cent. In a 2011 study, boys were more likely than girls to admit to digital self-bullying. In a 2022 study published by researchers Justin Patchin, Sameer Hinduja, and Ryan Meldrum, US youth who engaged in digital self-harm were between five and seven times more likely to have considered suicide and between nine and fifteen times more likely to have attempted suicide.
In the UK, a woman was cautioned in 2009 for trolling herself on Facebook and then jailed for 20 months for repeat offences during 2011–12.
Though digital self-harm can be done in various ways, it is usually done in a public or semi-public setting. Researchers Rinjani Soengkoeng and Ahmed Moustafa suggest that there are three types of digital self-harm. These are:
social development (either determine if one's friends would defend them or prove one's resilience)
personal gain (sympathy or entertainment)
manifestation of negative emotions (which can derive from mental health issues,stressors, or social rejection).
These appear to be common reasons for digital self harm according to Sameer Hinduja and Justin W. Patchin's 2017 study of American middle and high school students.
Contributing Factors
Common correlations to digital self-harm include bullying, depression, negative emotionality, and sleep deprivation. There is also research that suggests digital self-harm and physical self-harm have similar causes and motivations. The two seem to be positively associated with physical self-harm and suicidal thoughts and behaviors.
Prevention
Identifying and preventing digital self-harm is arguably more difficult than its offline counterpart. For one, it is hard for parents to monitor their child's online presence. Taking away internet access completely is usually impractical, as the internet is important for gaining important information from the outside world. There is a need to create strategies for digital self-harm prevention, as it is not the same as physical self harm or suicide. Due to anonymous apps such as Yik Yak, Whisper, and Secret, it is more difficult to track digital self-harm without possible invasion of privacy. Research by Dr. Sujita Kumar Kar suggests that "calling out" the behavior of digital-self harm may be counterproductive. Instead, encouragement to change online behavior may more beneficial in the long term.
References
Digital media use and mental health |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Notkin | David Notkin (1 January 1955 – 22 April 2013) was an American software engineer and professor of computer science.
Early life and education
Notkin was born in 1955 in Syracuse, New York, U.S. He pursued his Sc. B. degree from Brown University, graduating in 1977, and later received his doctoral degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 1984. He then moved to Seattle and joined as a faculty at the University of Washington. His interest was in software engineering, with a particular focus on software evolution.
Career
In 2000, Notkin received the Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award from the University of Washington. He served as chair of the computer science and engineering department from 2001 to 2006, during which he helped to open the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering.
He was a Fellow of both the ACM and IEEE. From 2007 to 2012, he served as the editor-in-chief of the ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. He was also a board member of the Computing Research Association.
Notkin is also noted for his efforts to expand the demographics of computing research, particularly to include women. In 2013, he received the A. Nico Habermann Award in recognition of this. He is also one of the two people after whom the Harrold and Notkin Research and Graduate Mentoring Award, given by the National Center for Women & Information Technology, is named.
In February 2013, the University of Washington announced the creation of the David Notkin Endowed Graduate Fellowship in Computer Science & Engineering, in an event attended by over 300 computer science students at the university to recognise Notkin's contributions.
Death and legacy
After a few years of battling cancer, Notkin died on April 22, 2013.
Awards
Notkin received a number of awards:
National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award (1988)
Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award, University of Washington (2000)
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award (2007)
AMC SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award (2012)
A. Nico Habermann Award (2013)
References
1955 births
2013 deaths
People from Syracuse, New York
Brown University alumni
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
University of Washington faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow Members of the IEEE
American computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidia%20Kulikovski | Lidia Kulikovski (born 8 March 1951) is a Moldovan librarian and bibliographer. As head of the Hasdeu Municipal Library, she extended the library network opening nine branches in Chișinău focused mainly on Romanian literature.
Education
Kulikovski was born Nicoreni, Drochia District, Moldovan SSR. She graduated in Philology (librarianship section) at the State University of Moldova in 1973, having Ion Osadcenco and Anatol Ciobanu among her professors. In 2003, she obtained a doctoral degree in Pedagogy, with a dissertation on the "Evolution of library services for disadvantaged people in the context of a society's democratization".
Career
On graduating, Kulikovski led a subsidiary of the Municipal Library of Chișinău. In 1978–1982, she was the head of the "centralized library system" of Cahul. She then returned to the Municipal Library to lead its acquisitions team until 1989. Either in 1989 or in 1990 Kulikovski became the director of the Hasdeu Municipal Library, a position she held until 2013.
Lidia Kulikovski authored a number of bibliography research projects. She coordinated, on a national level, European projects including PULMAN and Calimera. Between 2000 and 2004 she headed the Librarians' Association of the Republic of Moldova. In 2002, Kulikovski founded BiblioPolis, a librarianship journal. For some time, starting in 1999, she was the deputy editor-in-chief for Magazin bibliologic, also a library journal.
Representing the Municipal Library of Chișinău, Kulikovski has visited a number of renowned international libraries, such as the Library of Congress, the National Library of China, Centre Pompidou, the Royal Library of Denmark, as well as municipal libraries in Finland, Greece, Russia, Israel, Romania, Ukraine, etc.
Kulikovski has also authored some 200 research papers, bibliographies, interviews, book prefaces and essays. She conducted the issuing of 25 books about Moldovan writers, artists, and scientists, published by the Municipal Library.
Aside from her scientific activity, Kulikovski is also a professor at the State University of Moldova, Journalism faculty, department of Librarianship, where she lectures on librarianship, book sociology, and library management. She gave the same courses to the students of a librarianship school that the Librarians' Association was running.
Head of the Hasdeu Municipal Library
As head of the Hasdeu Municipal Library, Kulikovski is best known for de-ideologizing the library's collection of books and documents, and for extending the library's network. In this connection, she sought Romanian help to open nine subsidiary libraries in Chișinău containing mainly Romanian literature, and she pioneered an ethnic diversity project that led to the opening of subsidiaries with Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Bulgarian, Jewish, and Gagauz literature.
Recognition
Lidia Kulikovski was awarded the title of "Honored worker of culture" in 1987. She received the "Meritul Civic" Medal în 1996, and the "G |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilia%20amurensis | Tilia amurensis, the Amur lime or Amur linden, is a species of Tilia native to eastern Asia. It differs from the better-known Tilia cordata in having somewhat smaller leaves, bracts and cymes. It is an important timber tree in Russia, China and Korea, and is occasionally planted as a street tree in cities with colder climates.
Description
Tilia amurensis is a medium sized shade tree which can grow up to tall. The appearance is quite similar to Tilia japonica besides the difference in size of leaves, bracts and a shorter cyme. Tilia amurensis is a hermaphrodite which means it contains both female and male organs and is mainly pollinated by insects.
Habitat
T. amurensis prefer a medium moisture level as well as fertile well drained loams. It has the ability to adapt to several different ranges of soil conditions as well as a good tolerance for urban conditions . Often found in mixed forests region of China, North Korea, South Korea, Russia and north-east Siberia.
Life cycle
The leaves of the tree tend to begin to emerge around late spring to early June. In areas with clement winters the tree is known for being badly frosting after emerging early. its life span can span up to 50 years with many going on to live much longer in situations where they are maintained well and barring any diseases and issues that could come about.
Development
Tilia amurensis can grow up to 32 meters tall with a dark bark color. It has irregular scaled ridges which are shown as it matures. The twigs could be measured (1.3 - 2.6 mm thick). Primarily they start with tangled stellate indumentum which becomes glabrous as they mature. The buds are smooth,with 2 exposed scales. the leaves tend to measure between 4-8 x 4-7 cm orbicular alongside a long skinny tip with a cordata base. The lower base of the leaves are pale green with a loose stellate indumentum and strong tufts with red hair under the vein axils. The teeth with mucronate tips can grow up to 1.2 mm long. with the floral bracts growing to 4-10 cm x 0.5-1.5 cm. The leaves are rather droopy with 10-30 flowers on each pedicel.
Medicine
Tea can be made from the leaves which has an antispasmodic, diaphoretic and sedative effect.
Food
Tilia amurensis is not particularly used as a supplement for food. The leaves are edible but it is known as a famine food, which is a source of food only when all else fails. The leaves could also be used to make Tea. It is also known as a substitute for chocolate which made from a paste of the ground fruits and flowers. It has not become a popular product due to the paste decomposing very easily and rapidly.
References
http://temperate.theferns.info/plant/Tilia+amurensis
https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?taxonid=287373&isprofile=0&
https://pfaf.org/User/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Tilia+amurensis
amurensis
Flora of the Russian Far East
Trees of China
Trees of Korea
Plants described in 1869 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20Girone | Maria Girone is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the CERN openlab. She leads the development of High Performance Computing (HPC) technologies for particle physics experiments.
Early life and education
Girone studied physics at the University of Bari. She earned her doctoral degree in particle physics in 1994. She soon became a research fellow on the ALEPH experiment, supporting analysis and acting as liaison for the accelerator. She was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship and joined Imperial College London, where she worked on the hardware development for both the LHCb and ALEPH experiments.
Career and research
CERN openlab was established in 2001 and supports academics at CERN in their collaborations with independent companies. Girone moved into scientific computing in 2002, working for the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG). The WLCG stores, shares and assists in the analysis of data from the Large Hadron Collider where she developed a persistence framework. The WLCG is the largest assembly of computing resources ever collected for a scientific endeavour. In the Large Hadron Collider experiment detectors there are around one billion beam collisions per second. WLCG analyses billions of beam crossings and tries to predict the detector response.
In 2009, whilst at the WLCG, Girone founded and led the Operations Coordinations team. She was appointed coordinator of the software and computing for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) in 2014. In this capacity, she was responsible for the operation of seventy computing centres across five different continents. She joined CERN openlab as chief technology officer (CTO) in 2016.
She has worked on the upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider), which will require up to one hundred times more computing capacity than it did originally. This increase in capacity will come through access to commercial cloud computing platforms, data analytics, deep learning and new computing architectures.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Italian women physicists
Particle physicists
21st-century Italian physicists
University of Bari alumni
Academics of Imperial College London
People associated with CERN |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How%20to%20Train%20Your%20Dragon%3A%20Homecoming | How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming is a 2019 computer-animated short film by DreamWorks and directed by Tim Johnson. The holiday special takes place before the epilogue of the third film, and was both released on DVD and aired on NBC on December 3, 2019.
Plot
As New Berk prepares for Snoggletog, Hiccup and Astrid find out that their children, Zephyr and Nuffink have developed a fear of dragons after finding some of Stoick's old books. To avoid their children bearing the same hatred towards dragons as their ancestors, Astrid suggests bringing back the Snoggletog Pageant that tells the story of how Vikings and dragons made peace. Gobber agrees to help them with the pageant as he sees it as a chance to remind the children of New Berk how much of an impact Stoick had on their village. He casts himself as Stoick and Tuffnut as Hiccup while the real Hiccup creates a mechanical costume that resembles Toothless.
Back in the Hidden World, Toothless draws a picture of Hiccup and New Berk in the sand and shows it to the Light Fury and their children. The Night Lights grow curious about the picture's origin and decide to fly to New Berk while their parents are sleeping. Toothless and the Light Fury wake up in a panic after finding out their children have left and fly off after them. Meanwhile, the Nights Lights arrive on New Berk and sneak around the village as the residents prepare for the pageant. Though they catch a glimpse of Hiccup, they fall back upon coming across Hiccup's Toothless costume. Toothless and the Light Fury eventually find them, but then decide to stay together and watch the pageant from a distance.
Gobber accidentally lights the stage on fire during the performance, which sends Hiccup's costume out of control. Hiccup stumbles and falls off the cliff, but Toothless manages to rescue him and bring him back to the stage. With the smoke from the fire covering the stage, Toothless decides to fill in for Hiccup and helps Gobber end the show by reenacting the moment when he bonded with Hiccup, reminding New Berk and his family of the relationship the dragons had with the Vikings. After the show ends, Zephyr goes backstage to check on her father and ends up face-to-face with Toothless before he flies off with his family. Toothless' courteous and curious personality changes the way Zephyr views dragons.
Despite the pageant's disastrous performance, Hiccup and Astrid see that the youth of New Berk now have a newfound appreciation for both Stoick and the dragons. When they arrive at their home, they find a glowing crystal from the Hidden World and see that the bowl that contained Toothless' favorite fish is empty. They run outside and see Toothless and his family flying away from New Berk, which reminds Hiccup that their loved ones are always close as long as they hold them in their hearts. Astrid thinks their family should return the favor by visiting Toothless and the dragons at the Hidden World.
Cast
Jay Baruchel as Hiccup Haddock III
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmstadt%20Electronic%20Computing%20Machine%20%28DERA%29 | The Darmstadt Electronic Computing Machine (DERA), (German:Darmstädter Elektronischer Rechenautomat) was an experimental, room-sized electronic computer calculator with vacuum tube built in 1951. It was built at the Technische Universität Darmstadt under the direction of Alwin Walther. The first operation was in 1957, with development completed in 1959.
Technical data
Start of construction in 1950/51, start of use in 1957, completed in 1959
Programming languages: in addition to machine code also ALGOL.
I / O device: telegraph (paper tape reader).
Word machine with George Stibitz, from George Stibitz (also excess - 3 code), 20 bit (13 decimal places + sign)
Command length 7 digits
Drum memory with 3000 words
Ferrite core register (20 ms access time)
Clock frequency 200 kHz (addition 0.8 ms; multiplication 12 - 16 ms)
Components: 1,400 tubes, 8,000 diodes, 90 relays
See also
CAB500
Carousel memory (magnetic rolls)
Karlqvist gap
Manchester Mark 1
References
External links
Youtube of the Darmstadt Electronic Computing Machine (DERA) - Documentary from 1963
Librascope LGP-30: The drum memory computer referenced in the above story, also referenced on Librascope LGP-30.
Librascope RPC-4000: Drum memory computer referenced in the above story
Oral history interview with Dean Babcock
German inventions
Electronic calculators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20drug%20overdose%20death%20rates%20and%20totals%20over%20time | The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has data on drug overdose death rates and totals. Around 1,106,900 US residents died from drug overdoses from 1968 to 2020. Around 932,400 from 1999 through 2020. Around 91,800 in 2020. 28 people out of every 100,000 died from drug overdoses in 2020 in the US. Opioids were involved in around 80,400 of the around 106,700 deaths in 2021. Synthetic opioids other than methadone (primarily fentanyl) were involved with 70,601 deaths in 2021.
Around 110,700 people died in 2022. Around 112,000 people died in the 12-month period ending May 31, 2023, at a rate of 307 deaths per day. That is 335 deaths per million US residents.
1968–2021 overdose death rates and totals
The numbers at the source for the table below are continually updated. So the numbers in the table below may be slightly different.
2021 was a turning point in US history with over 100,000 deaths.
Overdose death rates by state. Map and timeline
Asterisks (*) indicate Health in STATE or Healthcare in STATE links in table below.
Overdose death counts by state over time
Overall US totals by year, followed by breakdown by state by year.
State links below are "Category:Health in STATE" links. See overall category.
Yearly overdose death totals by drug
Concerning the data in the charts below (in this section and the following sections) deaths from the various drugs add up to more than the yearly overdose death total because multiple drugs are involved in many of the deaths.
Opioid overdose death rates and totals. Many charts
Opioids were involved in around 80,400 of the around 106,700 deaths in 2021. See map higher up for states with the highest overdose death rates.
Overdose death rates by race and ethnicity. Timeline
Overdose death rates by sex. Timeline
Comparisons to other countries
There were around 68,700 drug overdose deaths in the United States in 2018. That is a rate of 210 deaths per million residents. Compare that rate to the 2018 rates of the countries in the first chart below.
Row numbers below are static. Other columns are sortable. This allows ranking of any column.
Location links below are "Healthcare in LOCATION" links.
See also
List of deaths from drug overdose and intoxication
Adulterants
Alcohol intoxication
Diseases of despair
Drug interactions
Responsible drug use
References
Further reading
Opioid Overdose Deaths by Race/Ethnicity. Kaiser Family Foundation.
Opioid Overdose Deaths by Type of Opioid. Kaiser Family Foundation.
Drug overdose
Medical emergencies
US
Drug culture
Suicide by poison
Substance-related disorders |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavefront%20expansion%20algorithm | The wavefront expansion algorithm is a specialized potential field path planner with breadth-first search to avoid local minima. It uses a growing circle around the robot. The nearest neighbors are analyzed first and then the radius of the circle is extended to distant regions.
Motivation
Before a robot is able to navigate a map it needs a plan. The plan is a trajectory from start to goal and describes, for each moment in time and each position in the map, the robot's next action. Path planning is solved by many different algorithms, which can be categorised as sampling-based and heuristics-based approaches.
Before path planning, the map is discretized into a grid. The vector information is converted into a 2D array and stored in memory. The potential field path planning algorithm determines the direction of the robot for each cell. This direction field is shown overlaid on the robotic map containing the robot and the obstacles. The question for the potential field algorithm is: which cell is labeled with which direction? This can be answered with a sampling-based algorithm.
Wavefront expansion
A sampling-based planner works by searching the graph. In the case of path planning, the graph contains the spatial nodes which can be observed by the robot. The wavefront expansion increases the performance of the search by analyzing only nodes near the robot. The decision is made on a geometrical level which is equal to breadth-first search. That means, it uses metrics like distances from obstacles and gradient search for the path planning algorithm.
The algorithm includes a cost function as an additional heuristic for path planning.
Implementation
Practical open-source implementations of the algorithm are available. The map of the world is provided as an array. Obstacles and the start position of the robot are given by special values in the array. The solver determines the goal direction in the imagined wave.
Existing implementations use a queue to store a wave data structure created around the robot. A typical implementation in Python can be realized in around 200 lines of code.
References
Routing algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasseled%20cap%20transformation | Tasseled cap transformation is a method to transform the spectral information of satellite data into spectral indicators. This index is used especially in the analysis of vegetation (phenological stages).
Background
In 1976, the Tasseled Cap Index was published by R.J. Kauth and G.S. Thomas. It was generated on the basis of spectral information from the Landsat satellite. The Tasseled Cap coefficients used in the linear equation of the Tasseled Cap transformation are sensor specific and therefore, were derived for each sensor system. The index is related to principal component analysis and vegetation indices.
Calculation
Six of seven Landsat TM bands are used for the algorithm, generating three levels of information:
Tasseled Cap Band 1 (brightness, a measurement value for the ground)
Tasseled Cap Band 2 (greenness, a measured value for the vegetation)
Tasseled Cap Band 3 (wetness, a measured value for interactions of soil and canopy moisture)
The algorithm for these three levels of information is a weighted sum of the Landsat bands (without the thermal channel 6), where each band is multiplied by the specific coefficients:
Brightness = 0.3037 (band 1) + 0.2793 (band 2) + 0.4743 (band 3) + 0.5585 (band 4) + 0.5082 (band 5) + 0.1863 (band 7)
Greenness = −0.2848 (band 1) − 0.2435 (band 2) − 0.5436 (band 3) + 0.7243 (band 4) + 0.0840 (band 5) − 0.1800 (band 7)
Wetness = 0.1509 (band 1) + 0.1973 (band 2) + 0.3279 (band 3) + 0.3406 (band 4) − 0.7112 (band 5) − 0.4572 (band 7)
References
Kauth R. J. & G. S. Thomas (1976): The tasseled Cap - A Graphic Description of the Spectral-Temporal Development of Agricultural Crops as Seen by LANDSAT. Proceedings of the Symposium on Machine Processing of Remotely Sensed Data
Sheng, L., Huang, J. & Tang, X. J. Zhejiang Univ. Sci. B (2011) 12: 780. https://doi.org/10.1631/jzus.B1100088
Crist, E. P., & Kauth, R. J. (1986). The Tasseled Cap de-mystified.[transformations of MSS and TM data]. https://www.asprs.org/wp-content/uploads/pers/1986journal/jan/1986_jan_81-86.pdf
Remote sensing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turi%20Munthe | Turi Munthe FRSA (born 1976) is an Anglo-French journalist and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Demotix, which became the largest network of photojournalists in the world, as well as Parlia, an encyclopaedia of opinion.
Education
Munthe studied Arabic and History at Oxford, Hebrew at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and dropped out of a PhD at NYU in Anthropology of Religion to start a (failed) biofuels business in Ghana.
Work
Munthe began his career with IBTauris, while writing for the British and US press on Middle East politics. He published The Saddam Hussein Reader, before covering the 2nd Gulf War as a freelance journalist. He then launched The Beirut Review, a cultural magazine published with the Daily Star under Rami Khouri, before returning to London as Head of the Middle East Programme at the Royal United Services Institute.
In late 2007, he founded Demotix with Jonathan Tepper. Demotix built a network of 75,000 contributors around the world and exited to Corbis Corporation in 2012. Munthe joined Marcus Brauchli and Sasa Vucinic’s North Base Media as a Venture Partner in 2015, before founding Parlia in 2019. In 2015, he co-curated the Global Art Forum with Sultan al-Qassemi and Shumon Basar.
Munthe has lectured on new media all over the world, and has made regular news appearances. He sits on the boards of openDemocracy, The New Humanitarian and The Signals Network, and has been a trustee of Index on Censorship and The Bureau for Investigative Journalism. He sits on the board of GEDI Gruppo Editoriale, the largest newspaper conglomerate in Italy.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustaf%20Neumann | Gustaf Neumann is an Austrian computer scientist who is specialised in information systems. He is a full professor and the chair of the Institute for Information Systems and New Media at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien). Neumann is one of the authors of Wirtschaftsinformatik, which is the bestseller book on Information Systems in German speaking countries with more than 500.000 copies.
Personal life
Gustaf Neumann is native of Vienna, Austria, born in 1958. His father, Gustaf Adolf Neumann, was an Austrian investigative journalist and newspaper editor.
Awards
1987 Heinz-Zemanek award of the Austrian Association of Computer Science (OCG)
1988 Senator Wilhelm Wilfling Price
2010 Tcl Community Service Award
Publications
Gustaf Neumann has published more than 200 books and papers in the areas of program transformation, data modeling, and information systems technology with a focus on e-learning applications. His book Wirtschaftsinformatik is one of the bestsellers in German Speaking countries.
References
External links
Personal Web-page at WU Wien
Institute for Information Systems and New Media
Vienna University of Economics and Business
Information systems researchers
Austrian computer scientists
1958 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopoiesis%20and%20Cognition%3A%20The%20Realization%20of%20the%20Living | Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living is a cybernetic work in systems theory and the philosophy of biology by Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela. It was first published under the title De Maquinas y Seres Vivos (English: 'On Machines and Living Beings') in 1972 in Chile by Editorial Universitaria S.A., with a second edition published in 1980 by the D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland, and a third edition published in 1991 by Springer. This work defines and explores the concept of autopoiesis, or 'self-creation' in biological systems in an effort to address cognition and autonomy in living systems. Autopoiesis was a core text for the field of second-order cybernetics, which often dealt with themes of self-reference and feedback loops. The book is the 42nd volume in the series Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science.
Reception
Autopoiesis and Cognition was most widely read as a work of systems theory. Reviews of the work praise it as an effort by scientists to bring their science to bear while crafting a phenomenology of biology, and addressing such important questions as the basis of life and cognition. However, reviewers also point out inconsistencies in the formal argument that Maturana and Varela are attempting to make. Reviewer M.G. writes in The Review of Metaphysics (v. 35, 1981),It seems to me that the authors' claim to be able to say what is cognition by means of a biological cognition collapses on itself. The notion of autopoiesis defines a phenomenological domain which then excludes all descriptions irrelevant to the autopoietic unity. This is a patent circularity.The concepts introduced by the work were quite divisive, and a debate over their validity has continued since their introduction, in fields such as biology, sociology, organizational management, and systems theory.
Influence
Sociology
Sociologist and social systems theorist Niklas Luhmann adapted the ideas from Autopoiesis to describe social systems, as did cyberneticist Stafford Beer.
Biology
The influence of Autopoiesis in mainstream biology was limited. Autopoiesis is not commonly used as the criterion for life. However, its basic principles are seen as features of the functions of biological organisms. Sir Paul Nurse, for example states 'living entities ... construct their own metabolism, and use it to maintain themselves, grow, and reproduce'.
References
1972 non-fiction books
Systems theory books
Philosophy of biology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patti%20Frazer%20Lock | Patricia Frazer Lock (born 1953) is an American mathematician, mathematics educator, statistician, statistics educator, and textbook author whose research interests include social networks and quantum logic. She is the Cummings Professor of Mathematics at St. Lawrence University.
Education and career
Lock is the daughter of J. Ronald Frazer, a hockey player and business school professor at Clarkson University. She graduated from Colgate University in 1975, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics, and went on to graduate study at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where she earned a master's degree in 1978 and completed her Ph.D. in 1981. Her dissertation, Categories of Manuals, was supervised by David J. Foulis.
After working for a term as an instructor at the United States Naval Academy, she joined St. Lawrence University in 1981. She became full professor in 1994 and Cummings Professor in 2002.
She has served the Mathematical Association of America as chair of its Special Interest Group on Statistics Education for 2015–2016.
Books
With Deborah Hughes Hallett, Andrew M. Gleason, and others, Lock is one of the co-authors of the Harvard Calculus Consortium series of textbooks. She is also a co-author with her husband and three children, all professional mathematicians and statisticians, of a statistics textbook, Statistics: Unlocking the Power of Data.
Recognition
In 2016 the Seaway Section of the Mathematical Association of America gave Lock their Clarence Stephens Distinguished Teaching Award.
In 2017 Lock won the Dexter C. Whittinghill III Award of the Mathematical Association of America Special Interest Group on Statistics Education for her work on incorporating visualizations of big data into introductory statistics courses.
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St. Lawrence University faculty
1953 births
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21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%20Talkman%20620 | The Nokia Talkman 620 is a portable phone which is discontinued.
Functions
Power signal received from the base station network
Keyboard and display lighting
Duration of the call (call)
Auto power off function
Volume control keyboard signals
Adjustable keyboard sound
Check the remaining battery
8Transmitter power control
Selection of country code
Set the block level
Transfer call to another handset
Pause
Memory
Multi-part transmission in the NMT system
Last number redial
Lock keypad
Clear Display
Select characters during conversation
Display angle settings
References
Talkman 620 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel%20task%20scheduling | Parallel task scheduling (also called parallel job scheduling or parallel processing scheduling) is an optimization problem in computer science and operations research. It is a variant of optimal job scheduling. In a general job scheduling problem, we are given n jobs J1, J2, ..., Jn of varying processing times, which need to be scheduled on m machines while trying to minimize the makespan - the total length of the schedule (that is, when all the jobs have finished processing). In the specific variant known as parallel-task scheduling, all machines are identical. Each job j has a length parameter pj and a size parameter qj, and it must run for exactly pj time-steps on exactly qj machines in parallel.
Veltman et al. and Drozdowski denote this problem by in the three-field notation introduced by Graham et al. P means that there are several identical machines running in parallel; sizej means that each job has a size parameter; Cmax means that the goal is to minimize the maximum completion time. Some authors use instead. Note that the problem of parallel-machines scheduling is a special case of parallel-task scheduling where for all j, that is, each job should run on a single machine.
The origins of this problem formulation can be traced back to 1960. For this problem, there exists no polynomial time approximation algorithm with a ratio smaller than unless .
Definition
There is a set of jobs, and identical machines. Each job has a processing time (also called the length of j), and requires the simultaneous use of machines during its execution (also called the size or the width of j).
A schedule assigns each job to a starting time and a set of machines to be processed on. A schedule is feasible if each processor executes at most one job at any given time.
The objective of the problem denoted by is to find a schedule with minimum length , also called the makespan of the schedule.
A sufficient condition for the feasibility of a schedule is the following
.
If this property is satisfied for all starting times, a feasible schedule can be generated by assigning free machines to the jobs at each time starting with time . Furthermore, the number of machine intervals used by jobs and idle intervals at each time step can be bounded by . Here a machine interval is a set of consecutive machines of maximal cardinality such that all machines in this set are processing the same job. A machine interval is completely specified by the index of its first and last machine. Therefore, it is possible to obtain a compact way of encoding the output with polynomial size.
Computational hardness
This problem is NP-hard even when there are only two machines and the sizes of all jobs are (i.e., each job needs to run only on a single machine). This special case, denoted by , is a variant of the partition problem, which is known to be NP-hard.
When the number of machines m is at most 3, that is: for the variants and , there exists a pseudo-polynomial t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block%20structure | Block structure may refer to:
In mathematics, block structure is a possible property of matrices – see block matrix
In computer science, a programming language has block structure if it features blocks, which can be nested to any depth
In linguistics, block structure is a representation of sentence grammar now most commonly associated with the Backus–Naur form. The alternate context-free grammar approach instead is a mathematical notation for operating on sentence grammars. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Amazonian%20Ecclesial%20Network | Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network (Red Eclesial Panamazónica, REPAM) is a network with a thousand organizations from the Amazon "to create a development model that privileges the poor and serves the common good".
There are local, national and international instances, congregations, institutions, specialized teams and missionaries from Brazil, Venezuela, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia that coordinate to work together to protect human rights, indigenous peoples and a different approach to the territory of the Amazon. It was born to be a counterpoint to the states that have prioritized economic growth ahead of human rights violations and the attack on indigenous peoples.
History
At the 2007 Aparecida Conference convened by John Paul II and concretized by Benedict XVI, the bishops warned that the Amazon was "only at the service of the economic interests of transnational corporations." After his election in 2013, Pope Francis addressed the bishops of Brazil to request that the church should assume a new role in the Panamazon region and asked for courage. He said that working for the preservation of nature in that region, especially the most disadvantaged, "is at the heart of the Gospel".
REPAM was established in September 2014 as a common initiative of several groups: the Latin American Bishops' Conference (CELAM), the Confederation of Latin American Religious (CLAR), Caritas Latin America, and the Commission for the Amazon of the Brazilian Bishops' Conference. At the creation of the organization, in September 2014, Cardinal Claudio Hummes said that the Church should have "an Amazonian face", "a mission to become incarnate, inculturated in the indigenous population her, in this particular reality of creation". In 2015 Cardinal Michael Czerny, who was one of the organizers of the Synod for the Amazon, wrote that before REPAM there were "limitations and fragmentations" and with the organization, it was possible "to deal with such a complex reality and changing". Since then, REPAM has coordinated the work of the Catholic Church in the Amazon region, the work of priests, missionaries, representatives of Caritas and has worked to defend indigenous peoples and the environment. In the encyclical Laudato si' of 2015 Pope Francis talked about the need to protect the planet's biodiversity "in the Amazon and the Congo, or the great aquifers and glaciers" because of its importance "for the whole earth and the future of humanity."
REPAM had a fundamental role in the Synod for the Amazon convened by Pope Francis in 2017 and that took place from 5 to 29 October 2019 in Rome with the aim of "find new paths for the evangelization of that portion of the people of God, particularly the indigenous people who are often forgotten and often face a bleak future due to the crisis of the Amazon rainforest, a fundamental lung for our planet." The president and general rapporteur was Claudio Hummes and vice-president Pedro Barreto. The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huddles%20%28app%29 | Huddles (originally V2, Byte, and later Clash) was an American short-form video hosting service and social network where users could create looping videos that are between 2–16 seconds long. It was created by a team led by Dom Hofmann as a successor to Vine, which Hofmann co-founded, until the project was sold to Clash App, Inc. and subsequently renamed.
Initially teased as v2, it was branded as Byte in November 2018. After a three-year closed beta, it officially launched on Apple's App Store and the Google Play Store on January 24, 2020. It was later sold to Clash, another short-form video app, a year later. Both apps thus merged into a single app called Clash, which was then later renamed to Huddles. It was discontinued on May 3, 2023.
History
Byte's predecessor, Vine, was founded in June 2012. It was acquired by Twitter in October 2012. It underwent a staggered update on iOS, Android, and Windows Phone systems throughout much of 2013. The main Vine app was shut down by Twitter in January 2017, disallowing all new videos to be uploaded. The Vine homepage was made into an archive, with users being able to view previously uploaded content. As of 2019, the archive is no longer available, though individual videos are still able to be accessed via their direct link.
Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann announced in December 2017 that he intended to launch a successor to Vine. At the time, he called it "v2". In May 2018, he posted an update that the project was being put on hold. Among other things, he said that the biggest reason for this was "financial and legal hurdles". He said that his intention was to fund the new service himself as a personal project, but the attention that the announcement generated suggested that the cost to build and run a service that was sustainable at launch would be too high. In November, he announced that the project was moving forward again with funding and a team, under the new "Byte" branding. At the time, the website invited users to sign up for updates and for content creators to join its "creator program". The partner program was shut down in August, with the byte team announcing that they "will be using this time to take everything [they've] learned and apply it toward future opportunities and programs".
Byte was officially launched to the public on the iOS and Android platforms in over 40 countries on January 24, 2020, with the tagline "creativity first". Additionally, the company has promised a program that intends to compensate creators for their work. In the media, Byte has been referred to as a direct competitor to TikTok and Likee, similar video sharing platforms popular with teens.
On January 26, 2021, it was announced that Clash, another short-form video app, would be acquiring Byte. The deal was finalized the following month, with both apps merging into a single one called Clash. After months of beta testing, Clash was publicly available on App Store on October 12, 2021. It became available for Android tw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine%20Jue | Josephine Jue (born 1946) is a Chinese-American computer programmer and mathematician who is best known for being the first Asian-American woman working in NASA, where she worked for 37 years. Jue is a founding member of the Chinese Baptist church of Houston, Texas.
Early life
Jue was born in Vance, Mississippi, into a Mississippi Delta Chinese family. She received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Houston.
Work for NASA
Jue joined NASA in 1963, being one of eight women at the time, and the sole Asian-American woman. She worked for NASA for 34 years, where she held four different positions. She worked as a compiler for the Space Shuttle program and also worked for Apollo 11. She also was the chief of NASA's Software Engineering Laboratory (SEL) in 1975. She is best known for development, implementation and maintenance of the HAL/S system during the Space Shuttle program.
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Living people
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20th-century women mathematicians
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People from Quitman County, Mississippi
People from Tallahatchie County, Mississippi
University of Houston alumni
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21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilaban%20Natin%20Yan%21 | () is a 2020 Philippine television dramatized tabloid talk show broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Monti Puno Parungao, Armin Collado and Ralph Errald Manuel Malabunga, it is hosted by Vicky Morales. It premiered on February 22, 2020 on the network's Sabado Star Power sa Hapon line up replacing Wish Ko Lang!. The show concluded on April 4, 2020 with a total of 7 episodes. It was replaced by Wish Ko Lang! in its timeslot.
Episodes
Production
In March 2020, principal photography was halted due to the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
References
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2020 Philippine television series endings
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Television productions suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Philippine television talk shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%20Kerala%20human%20chain | Manushya Maha Sringhala (Mega Human Network) was a human chain formed on 26 January 2020 across the Indian state of Kerala to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the proposed National Register of Citizens. The chain was formed by approximately 6 to 7 million people and extended for a distance of 700 kilometres (435 miles) stretching north to south from Kasaragod to Kaliyikkavila.
The Left Democratic Front led by the Communist Party of India had organized the human chain. The chain was completed at 16:00 Indian Standard Time (+5:30 GMT) when the participants read out the preamble of the Constitution of India and swore an oath to protect it. The chain was formed on the Republic Day of India.
Background
The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA) was passed by the Parliament of India on 11 December. India does not have a law to define refugee status and all undocumented individuals in India are considered illegal migrants. The act grants Indian citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians who claim to be from Pakistan, Bangladesh or Afghanistan and reduces the period of naturalization. The Ministry of Home Affairs has also introduced the proposal for implementing a National Register of Citizens (NRC) for all citizens of India. The NRC was first implemented in Assam, which excluded 1.9 million individuals who were declared illegal immigrants and sent to detention camps. The individuals in question were predominantly Hindu or Muslim. The NRC was criticized for being deeply flawed and acting on the basis of guilt until proven innocent thereby providing the possibility of genuine citizens being rendered stateless by the process.
The passage of the CAA led to widespread protests across India, leading to at least 25 dead with the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party being accused of religious discrimination in providing citizenship, violent suppression of dissent and attempting to disenfranchise and segregate millions of Muslims with the continued insistence on implementing a nationwide NRC. The Act has received criticism from across the world with the UN calling it "fundamentally discriminatory" and a resolution was moved in the EU Parliament against it. Four Indian states passed a resolution against it. Several Indian states also declared that they will not implement either the CAA or the NRC or both of them.
In Kerala, the ruling Left Democratic Front coalition and the opposition United Democratic Front coalition granted joint support to the protests across India. The Legislative Assembly of Kerala passed a resolution against the act. Following the resolution, the government of Kerala filed a lawsuit against the government of India for violating the provisions of fundamental rights and secularism granted by the Constitution of India. The government also stopped work related to the National Population Register which has been reported to be utilized for the conduction of the NRC. The state of Keral |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Love%20of%20My%20Life%20episodes | Love of My Life is a 2020 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on the network's Telebabad line up and worldwide via GMA Pinoy TV from February 3, 2020 to March 19, 2021, replacing One of the Baes.
Series overview
Episodes
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UNESCO%20Global%20Geoparks%20in%20North%20America | In North America, there is no regional geopark network so far. As of July 2020, there are five UNESCO Global Geoparks in Canada and several aspiring geoparks projects going on, under the framework of the Canadian Geoparks Network. In the United States, there are no active UNESCO Global Geoparks so far, but there are certain plans to establish geoparks, applying for this label. Further elements of the geodiversity of the continent is represented on the World Heritage list, under criterion VIII or VII.
UNESCO Global Geoparks
Aspiring geoparks
According to the register of Canadian Geoparks Network, the following geopark projects are going on with the future request for UNESCO status. There are further plans to establish geoparks in the United States as well.
The Canadian Geoparks Network
The Canadian National Committee for Geoparks (CNCG) or the Canadian Geoparks Network was founded in 2009, under the patronage of the Canadian Federation of Earth Sciences (CFES). As the national committee of Canada of the Global Geoparks Network, it is the coordinator of UNESCO Global Geopark applications from Canada and a forum for capacity building among active UNESCO-labeled geoparks and aspiring ones. The committee is helping the currently running and future geopark applications with established guidelines, site visits prior to applications for SWOT analysis.
North America is currently not represented with a regional geopark network in the Global Geoparks Network, such as the Asia Pacific Geoparks Network. With the lack of active UNESCO Global Geoparks in the United States, the Canadian Geoparks Network represent the North American geoparks movement in international conferences and regional meetings.
Recognition of North America's geodiversity under different international frameworks
World Heritage sites
Sixteen sites are represented currently on the World Heritage list under criterion VIII, as an outstanding representative of Earth's history:
Anticosti (Canada)
Great Smoky Mountains National Park (United States)
Carlsbad Caverns National Park (United States)
Mammoth Cave National Park (United States)
Everglades National Park (United States)
Grand Canyon National Park (United States)
Yellowstone National Park (United States)
Yosemite National Park (United States)
Joggins Fossil Cliffs (Canada)
Miguasha National [provincial] Park (Canada)
Mistaken Point (Canada)
Kluane / Wrangell-St Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek (Canada)
Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks (Canada)
Dinosaur Provincial Park (Canada)
Gros Morne National Park (Canada)
Nahanni National Park Reserve (Canada)
Ilulissat Icefjord (Greenland, Denmark)
Further sites are inscribed under criterion VII of superlative natural phenomena and aesthetic importance. Some of them, which have a special geoheritage importance are:
Olympic National Park (United States)
Waterton Glacier International Peace Park (Canada, United States)
Notes
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Homes | Network Homes was a housing association operating in 36 local authorities across London, Hertfordshire, and the southeast of England. In 2019 the organisation owned and managedover 20,000 homes, making it one of London's largest housing associations.
In October 2023, the housing association merged its operations with its former rival Sovereign and formed the Sovereign Network Group (SNG), becoming the owner of 82,000 homes.
History
Network Homes started life in 1974 as Brent People's Housing Association. The Association continued to develop throughout the 1970s and 1980s, and in 1988 was renamed Stadium Housing then Network Stadium and then Network Housing Association.
Growth then took a rapid upturn during the 1990s and 2000s as homes were transferred from local authorities, eventually resulting in the creation of a new structure, the Network Housing Group, in 2003.
In April 2016, the group was restructured again, bringing together all four main operating housing associations and the group parent together into a single organisation, Network Homes
Mission
Network Homes state that they aim to "open up possibilities for as many people as we can, by continuing to grow a forward-thinking, service-driven and financially strong organisation that builds, sells, rents and manages good homes in thriving communities".
Aside from building and managing social housing, Network Homes pursues this goal through projects like their partnership with the New Horizon Youth Centre, which offers young homeless people safe, affordable accommodation together with support into sustainable employment and long-term housing
In July 2019, Network Homes Chief Executive Helen Evans was made Chair of the G15, a group of London's largest housing associations. She will hold the position until 2021, when Geeta Nanda OBE, Chief Executive of Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing, will assume the role.
References
2023 mergers and acquisitions
1974 establishments in England
Organizations established in 1974
Housing associations based in England
Housing organisations based in London
2021 disestablishments in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golog%20%28disambiguation%29 | Golog may refer to:
Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province
Golog Maqin Airport
Jigme Gyatso (AKA Golog Jigme), a Tibetan filmmaker
GOLOG, a high-level logic programming language
See also
Gologan, a river in Romania
Gologanu, a community in Romania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%20bots | Wikipedia bots are Internet bots (computer programs) that perform simple, repetitive tasks on Wikipedia. One prominent example of an internet bot used in Wikipedia is Lsjbot, which generated millions of short articles across various language editions of Wikipedia.
Activities
Computer programs, called bots, have often been used to automate simple and repetitive tasks, such as correcting common misspellings and stylistic issues, or to start articles, such as geography entries, in a standard format from statistical data. Additionally, there are bots designed to automatically notify editors when they make common editing errors (such as unmatched quotes or unmatched parentheses).
Anti-vandalism bots like ClueBot NG, created in 2010 are programmed to detect and revert vandalism quickly. Bots are able to indicate edits from particular accounts or IP address ranges, as occurred at the time of the shooting down of the MH17 jet incident in July 2014 when it was reported edits were made via IPs controlled by the Russian government.
Bots on Wikipedia must be approved before activation.
A bot once created up to 10,000 articles on the Swedish Wikipedia in a day. According to Andrew Lih, the current expansion of Wikipedia to millions of articles would be difficult to envision without the use of such bots. The Cebuano, Swedish and Waray Wikipedias are known to have high numbers of bot-created content.
Types of bots
One way to sort bots is by what activities they perform:
content creation, such as by procedural generation
fixing errors, such as by copy editing or addressing link rot
adding connectors, such as with hyperlinks to content elsewhere
tagging content with labels
repairing vandalism, such as ClueBot NG
clerk, updating reports
archiving old discussions or tasks
moderation systems to combat against spam or misconduct
recommender systems to encourage users
notifications, such as with push technology and pull technology
repairing broken external links, such as InternetArchiveBot
See also
Wikipedia:Bots
Wikipedia:Bot policy
Wikipedia:History of Wikipedia bots
Wikidata item for Wikipedia:Bots, listing all Wikipedia:Bots project pages
References
Internet bots
Bots |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MNO%20%28disambiguation%29 | MNO is an abbreviation for mobile network operator. It may also refer to
Manganese oxide (MnO)
Ministry of Defence in some Slavic-speaking countries:
Ministry of Defence (Czechoslovakia)
Ministry of Defence of the Slovak State
Multinational organization
Manono Airport (IATA airport code MNO) in Manono, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Master of Nonprofit Organizations, a graduate-level degree |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20ThinkPad%20365 | The IBM ThinkPad 365 is a notebook computer series developed by IBM and manufactured by ASE Group. It was released in North America in November 1995, and was the successor of the ThinkPad 360 series. The series had 8 models that were released before being discontinued, and was succeeded in 1997 by the ThinkPad 380 series.
History
Introduction
Originally the price of the 365 series was expected to start at $2,300 earlier in 1996, but some changes were made to make the series more cost competitive in the market. IBM's main notebook competitor at the time was Toshiba, which offered notebooks such as the T1910 for $1,599. IBM earlier in the year had a 21% market share for portable computers while Toshiba had 27%. To make the 365 line cheaper, IBM partnered with Taiwanese manufacturer ASE Group to build the 365 series. Additionally IBM chose to go with a cheaper processor, choosing the Cyrix 486DX4 for the initial series offerings, as it was available for less than $100. It was originally believed earlier in the year that the series would use the Intel DX4, but this was not the case. However, Pentium P54C based systems would be made later, which would become the X/XD models. With the lower price and many configuration options available, IBM hoped to attract a wider audience.
On November 7, 1995, the 365 series was announced with the 365CS, C, CSD, and CD models. The base model 365CS had a $1,999 price tag and came with a 10.4" passive matrix (DSTN) display, 75 MHz DX4 processor, 8 MB of RAM, Sound-Blaster compatible audio, and a 540 MB hard disk drive. The 365C was the same as the CS except it had an active matrix (TFT) display, which offered better quality and it was available for $2,200. The 365CSD and CD offered a 2x speed CD-ROM drive and the CD had a TFT while the CSD had a DSTN display. The series was available from IBM directly, retailers, and stores.
IBM would also demonstrate the 365C/CD at the Fall Comdex show in November 1995 against many competitors. They had one of the largest exhibits at the event, showcasing other products such as the ThinkPad 760 line.
E/ED Release
In March 1996 the 365E/ED were announced. Both would be the same to the previous models but offer a 100 MHz Cyrix 5x86 processor and the ED would be equipped with a 4x speed CD-ROM drive. The release in the US was expected to be the following month in April, while the E/ED was already available in Europe and other countries. The E/ED were expected to be released May 10, 1996, and would be available for $1,999–2,499. After the release of the E/ED, the four original 486-based models were discontinued.
X/XD Release
Shortly after the E/ED announcement on April 23, 1996, IBM announced the X/XD models. Both would have a Pentium P54C 100 or 120 MHz processor, up to 1.08 GB hard disk drive, and EDO memory with a maximum capacity of 40 MB. The 365X would also be available with a bigger 11.3" DSTN display, and the 365XD would have a 4x CD-ROM drive. Availability was planne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%20Ninghui | Sun Ninghui (; born March 1968) is a Chinese computer scientist who is a researcher and the current director of the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Biography
Sun was born in Shanghai, in March 1968, while his ancestral home in Shou County, Anhui. He secondary studied at Fanchang County No.1 High School. He earned the highest marks in his county during the 1985 National College Entrance Examination. He holds a bachelor's degree from Peking University, and obtained his master's and doctor's degrees from the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences under the direction of Li Guojie (computer scientist). After graduation, he worked at the institute, where he was promoted to its director in 2011. He was a visiting scholar at Princeton University between June 1996 and June 1997. He has been director of the State Key Laboratory of Computer Architecture since October 2011.
Honours and awards
1995 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class)
1997 State Science and Technology Progress Award (First Class)
2001 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class)
2003 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class)
2006 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class)
2009 National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars
2013 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class)
November 22, 2019 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)
References
External links
Sun Ninghui on the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Sun Ninghui on the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1968 births
Living people
Scientists from Shanghai
Chinese computer scientists
Peking University alumni
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20most-liked%20tweets | This list contains the top 30 tweets with the most likes on the social networking platform Twitter. Twitter does not provide a full official list, but news and mainstream media often cover the topic. As of , the most-liked tweet has over 6.9 million likes and was tweeted by the account of American actor Chadwick Boseman, announcing his death from cancer. Five accounts have more than one of the most-liked tweets in the top 30: South Korean band BTS has 17, while former U.S. president Barack Obama, current U.S. president Joe Biden, business magnate Elon Musk, and environmental activist Greta Thunberg each have two.
Top 30
The following table lists the top 30 most-liked tweets on Twitter, the account that tweeted it, the total number of likes rounded down to the nearest hundred thousand, and the date it was originally tweeted. Tweets that have an identical number of likes are listed in date order with the most recent tweet ranked highest. The notes provide the details surrounding the tweet.
See also
List of most-disliked YouTube videos
List of most-followed Twitter accounts
List of most-liked Instagram posts
List of most-liked YouTube videos
List of most-retweeted tweets
List of most-subscribed YouTube channels
References
Lists of Internet-related superlatives
Twitter tweets
Twitter-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep%20problems%20in%20women | Sleep problems in women can manifest at various stages of their life cycle. Both subjective and objective data indicate that women are at an increased risk of experiencing different types of sleeping problems during different life stages. Factors such as hormonal changes, aging, psycho-social aspects, physical and psychological conditions, and the presence of sleeping disorders can disrupt women's sleep. Research supports the presence of disturbed sleep during the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, postpartum period, and menopausal transition. The relationship between sleep and women's psychological well-being suggests that the underlying causes of sleep disturbances are often multi-factorial throughout a woman's lifespan.
Sleep during menstrual cycle
Initial variations of sleep in women begin with the menstrual cycle. In subjective studies, women who report PMS or PMDD report increases in poor sleep quality. However, most objective laboratory-based PSG measures of young healthy women do not confirm irregular sleep patterns, neither in sleep duration nor sleep quality across the menstrual cycle. One exception is the reduction of REM sleep and markedly more so the increase of Stage 2 sleep during the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle. Several studies attribute this to increased estrogen and progesterone concentrations. One actigraphy study reports a modest decline in total sleep time of 25 min in late-reproductive woman during the premenstrual week. The measurement of subjectively reported sleep during the menstrual cycle differs. Seventy percent of women report a negative impact on their sleep. Furthermore, they report a decrease in sleep quality on 2.5 days each month. Poor sleep quality, connected with poor mood and menstrual pain, especially during the premenstrual week, are most likely to be reported. Psychological factors influencing sleep quality in women, related to hormonal fluctuations, such as mood disorders and sleep disorders, are often higher in women after the onset menarche.
Sleep during pregnancy
An estimated 46% of women experience subjectively poor sleep during pregnancy and this percentage increases progressively up to approximately 78% in the late stages of pregnancy. Reasons vary according to the trimester, relating to hormonal changes and physical discomfort: anatomic changes, sleep fragmentation, fragmentation of breathing, metabolic changes which might increase sleep disorders such as restless leg syndrome, gastroesophageal reflux, increase in overnight sodium excretion, changes in the musculoskeletal system, nocturnal uterine contractions, changes in iron and folate metabolism, and changes in the circadian and homeostatic regulation of sleep.
First trimester
Laboratory-based studies show that most women experience more disruption during night-time sleep and become sleepier. They sleep on average more during this time compared to pre-pregnancy sleep time. Total sleep time, however, decreases as the pregnancy progresses. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%20Guojie%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Li Guojie (; born 29 May 1943) is a Chinese computer scientist who served as dean of the School of Computer and Control Engineering, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Biography
Li was born in Shaoyang, Hunan, Republic of China, on May 29, 1943. His father, Li Binqing (), was an educator who served as president of Shaodong County No.2 High School after the establishment of the Communist State. After high school in 1960, he was accepted to Hunan Agricultural Mechanization College. Because the school was closed, he was assigned to work as a mechanic in Lengshuijiang Iron and Steel Factory. In September 1962 he entered Peking University, majoring in the Department of Physics, where he graduated in 1968. In December 1968 he was assigned to a farm in southwest China's Guizhou province. A year and a half later, he was assigned to a crystal factory in the suburb of the capital city Guiyang. In February 1973, he was transferred to a computer factory in his home-city Shaoyang. After the resumption of National College Entrance Examination, he earned his Master of Engineering degree from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in August 1981. He earned his doctor's degree at Purdue University under the direction of Benjamin Wah. He was a researcher at the University of Illinois between August 1985 and December 1986. He returned to China in January 1987 and became a researcher at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. In February 1990 he was appointed director of the State Intelligent Computer Research and Development Center by the State Scientific and Technological Commission. In 1995 he founded the Shuguang Information Industry Co., Ltd. He assumed the position of director of the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in December 1999, and remained dean until January 2011. In January 2012 he was chosen as dean of the School of Computer and Control Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was president of China Computer Federation (CCF).
He was a delegate to the 9th and 10th National People's Congress. He was a delegate to the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
Personal life
Li married Zhang Dihua (), the daughter of Zhang Qixian (), an engineer who died in Yemen. The couple have a son named Li Gang (), and a daughter named Li Juan ().
Honours and awards
1994 Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation
1995 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class)
1997 State Science and Technology Progress Award (First Class)
November 1995 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)
2001 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class)
2004 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class)
2011 Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences
References
1943 births
Living people
People from Shaoyang
Engineers from Hunan
TWAS fellows
Peking University alumni
University of the Chinese Ac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misha%20Tsodyks | Misha Tsodyks is a leading theoretical and computational neuroscientist whose research focuses on identifying neural algorithms underlying cortical systems and cognitive behavior. His most notable achievements include demonstrating the importance of sparsity in neural networks, describing the mechanisms of short-term synaptic plasticity and working and associative memory.
As of 2019, Tsodyks is the C.V. Starr Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in New Jersey. He also teaches at the Weizmann Institute of Science and serves as the Chief Editor of Frontiers of Computational Neuroscience.
Tsodyks has received numerous awards for his work in the field including the Mathematical Neuroscience Prize, the Morris L. Levinson Biology Prize, membership of the Society for Neuroscience, and membership of the editorial board of various scientific journals.
Biography
Tsodyks received his Masters from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1983 and his doctorate from the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics. He went on to work as a research scientist at various high profile institutions, including the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology at the USSR Academy of Science in 1987, the Racah Institute of Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1990, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in 1994.
He eventually assumed a position as senior investigator at the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1995, which resulted in his becoming an associate professor in 2000, a full professor of theoretical and computational neuroscience in 2005, and a department head in 2006.
In addition to his work at the Weizmann Institute, Tsodyks served as an adjunct professor at Columbia University from 2010 to 2015, at which point he became a visiting professor. As of 2019, he is the C.V. Starr Professor of Theoretical Neuroscience at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Tsodyks has also assumed a number of influential positions at various scientific journals. He was a member of the editorial board of Neural Networks (journal) from 1999 to 2007, the Hippocampus (journal) from 1999 to 2003, and joined the editorial board of the Journal of Computational Neuroscience in 2000. He was named Chief Editor of Frontiers of Computational Neuroscience in 2007.
Select publications
Misha Tsodyks has an extensive publication record. A selection of works is listed below:
Bibliography
Notable honors
Starr Foundation Grant.
Mathematical Neuroscience Prize, Israel Brain Technologies.
Morris L. Levinson Biology Prize.
Member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Computational Neuroscience.
Member of the Editorial Boards of Neural Networks (journal).
Member of the Editorial Boards of Hippocampus (journal).
Chief Editor, Frontiers of Computational Neuroscience
Member of the Society for Neuroscience.
Member of the Israeli Society for Neuroscience.
References
External links
IAS Profile page
Weizma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco%20Jos%C3%A9%20Vico%20Vela | Francisco José Vico Vela is a scientist and engineer who is a full professor of artificial intelligence at the University of Málaga. As a researcher, Vico is founder and head of the Biomimetics and EdTech research groups at the University of Málaga, and founder and CEO of the university spin-offs Melomics Media and Digitomica as an entrepreneur. His work is mostly known for using evolutionary computation in the field of automated computer composition and industrial design.
Education and career
Vico graduated from the University of Málaga with a BA in computer science in 1991 and was the recipient of a doctoral grant, receiving his PhD in 1995. After doing a postdoc in Buffalo, New York, Vico started working as a lecturer in computer science at the University of Malaga in 1996, and then became an assistant professor in 2000 and full professor in 2012.
Basic research
Vico developed research in computational neuroscience and computer vision from his doctoral thesis (contributing with models of neuron function) until 2005, where his interests turned to evolutionary computation and artificial life. He has advised or co-advised eight PhD theses, led more than 40 research projects as principal investigator, mostly with public funding, and has two patents.
Applied research
Despite his basic research in brain function and form evolution, Vico's interest has been mainly focused on the applicability of the results. His research projects with industry have ranged from day trading to knee replacement surgery.
Artificial creativity
An early research project with Alcatel in the field of automating industrial design resulted in his most cited paper. A decade later, Vico led the Melomics project, which was a milestone in the application of artificial intelligence to computer music. This research produced Iamus, a computer cluster for automated composition, which composed music that was recorded in the album Iamus, and a piece interpreted by the London Symphony Orchestra, described by New Scientist as "The first major work composed by a computer and performed by a full orchestra." For its disruptive novelty in the artistic and technological disciplines, Melomics was acknowledged as one of the scientific contributions of 2012 by Discover magazine. It also found applications in health, and was presented in the Seoul Digital Forum in 2015.
Educational technologies
Since 2015, Vico's activity has focused on educational technologies. ToolboX is a programming environment developed by Vico that adapts modern computer technology to coding education.
Games
Vico has also designed Selfo, a connection board game.
References
External links
Academic staff of the University of Málaga
Spanish computer scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20Forecast%20Applications%20Network | Climate Forecast Applications Network (CFAN) is a company that develops weather and climate forecast tools and provides research and consulting services to manage weather and climate risks. CFAN was started in 2006 by Judith Curry and Peter Webster in Georgia Tech’s Enterprise Innovation Institute VentureLab program.
Background
Climate Forecast Applications in Bangladesh was among CFAN's first projects. In 1998, 60% of Bangladesh had floods for over three months as the Brahmaputra River and Ganges flooded simultaneously. CFAN developed a 1 to 10 day hydrologic forecast model in 2000, and the model became operational in 2003. The Bangkok, Thailand-based Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System (RIMES) continues use of the model for Bangladesh. Following three years of summer floods in Pakistan, a model was developed for the Indus Valley but has not been used by Pakistan authorities. CFAN has continued to call for improved weather forecasts for South Asia, particularly following Cyclone Nargis's effect on Myanmar and the storm surge from Super Typhoon Haiyan.
Reception
In Global Flood Hazard: Applications in Modeling, Mapping, and Forecasting, CFAN was called a "notable example" for flood early warning processes, and their system was praised for effectiveness and cost. Their probabilistic forecasts are made available online for customers and can be used for operational and disaster management. In Reducing Disaster: Early Warning Systems For Climate Change, CFAN is cited as an example of "strong institutional networking and commitments" that have facilitated development of flood forecasting schemes and their application, at the international level. In Flood Forecasting: A Global Perspective CFAN's Bangladesh flood timing and flood risk predictions for the Brahmaputra River were characterized as "skillful" despite the "considerable overestimation or underestimation of peak magnitudes", with predictions for the Ganges being "less skillful".
References
Forecasting
Forecasting organizations
Weather forecasting
Weather events in Bangladesh
Numerical climate and weather models |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ama%20Duncan | Ama Duncan is a Ghanaian entrepreneur, author and the founder of the Fabulous Woman Network. She is also known for her women empowerment sessions held by the Fabulous Women Network where she is a founder.
Ama has over 13 years’ experience in Human Resources Development and is the CEO of Ama Duncan Consulting through which she consults for businesses and has trained over 2000 professionals. She conducts one-on-one and group coaching for women-led businesses and has also created online courses. Other projects she has facilitated include the Women's Leadership Development Program organised by the Kofi Annan International Peace Keeping Center (KAIPTC), EU-Ghana Circular Economy Conference and GIZ/British Council Jobs For Youth Project. Ama was also the team leader for the curriculum review of the NBU (No Business As Usual) Hub Youth Entrepreneurship and Employability Program.
Ama has authored two books: Yarns of inspiration I and Networking Made Easy.
Education
Ama is a product of the University of Ghana, Legon where she holds a Bachelor of Arts degree and holds Master's in Business Administration from the Paris Graduate School of Management in France.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century Ghanaian businesswomen
21st-century Ghanaian businesspeople |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20After%20Words%20interviews%20first%20aired%20in%202020 | After Words is an American television series on the C-SPAN2 network’s weekend programming schedule known as Book TV. The program is an hour-long talk show, each week featuring an interview with the author of a new non-fiction book. The program has no regular host. Instead, each author is paired with a guest host who is familiar with the author or the subject matter of their book.
References
2020
2020 in American television
2020-related lists |
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